Further Validation of a Rapid Screening Semiquantitative Thin-Layer Chromatographic Method for Marketed Antimalarial Medicines for Adoption in Malawi

Table 1

Composition of analysed antimalarial medicines.

Non-ACTs		Doses copacked on one blister		Fixed-dose ACTs
API	Number	API	Number	API	Number
Quinine sulphate	6	Ats copacked with SP	4	Atm/Lum	41
Quinine hydrochloride	3			Dha/Pp	14
Quinine bisulphate	4			Dha/SP	12
SP	23			Ats/SmP	5
Total	36		4		72

Atm, artemether; Ats, artesunate; Lum, lumefantrine; Dha, dihydroartemisinin; S, sulphadoxine; P, pyrimethamine; Pp, piperaquine phosphate; Sm, sulphamethoxypyridazine.