Médecine et Santé Tropicales
MENUEvaluation of the application of national malaria treatment guidelines in private pharmacies in a rural area in the Democratic Republic of Congo Volume 29, issue 4, Octobre-Novembre-Décembre 2019
Authors
Objective
1 Institut national de recherche biomédicale, Kinshasa, Congo, RDC
2 Centre de formation et d’appui sanitaire, Kinshasa, Congo, RDC
3 K-Plan, Marseille, France
4 Inserm, SSA, IRBA, MCT, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
* Correspondance
- Key words: malaria, private pharmacies, artemisinin-based combination therapies, rural area, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- DOI : 10.1684/mst.2019.0925
- Page(s) : 392-8
- Published in: 2019
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the first recourse in case of suspected malaria in the health system is the private pharmacy sector. This study was therefore designed to assess private provider adherence to national case management guidelines in Kimpese, a rural area of Central Kongo province.