What does ACT stand for?

Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy

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All patients who were diagnosed with malaria, regardless of method, were prescribed artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), a treatment based on a Chinese plant called Artemisia annua.

Revolutionary blood test to fight malaria

Notable among those partners is the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which from 2003 helped to distribute nets to kill insects and to launch artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), including a anti-malarial drug, in seven pilot districts.

Zambia's dropping malaria death rate is world model: WHO

In Africa, the artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is recommended by WHO, reached only 3% of children in need.

Progress made in malaria control, yet burden is enormous (Health)

Of the 42 malaria-endemic countries in the African Region, 33 have adopted artemisinin-based combination therapy, the most effective antimalarial medicines available today, as first-line treatment.

African regional health report

White found that when artemisinin is combined with other drugs to form artemisinin-based combination therapy, or ACT, it cleared malaria from the blood in 90 percent of the cases.

Fatal inaction: there is a silver bullet for Africa's malaria ...

WHO recommends artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which delays the emergence of resistance, but so far its use has been constrained by high costs and limited operational experience.

Malaria in Africa today

In April 2003, the volunteer medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres asked international donors to promote "rapid implementation of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), a proven treatment that is being promoted by the World Health Organization.

An affordable antimalarial

Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has been shown to be effective in treating malaria, but a treatment costs about $2.

CEO of Institute for OneWorld Health Advocates Focus First on ...