Research Article
Evaluation of the Quality of Artemisinin-Based Antimalarial Medicines Distributed in Ghana and Togo
Table 4
Quality of the categories of antimalarial medicines by SQ-TLC assay.
| | Categories of antimalarials | Ghana | Togo | Overall failure rate | | Total | Number tested | Fail | % failure | Total | Number tested | Fail | % failure |
| | ACTs (90) | | | | | | | | | | | Artesunate | 14 | 12 | 12 | 100% | 11 | 11 | 11 | 100% | | | Artemether | 31 | 30 | 25 | 83.3% | 28 | 28 | 28 | 100% | 80/87 = 92.0% | | Dihydroartemisinin | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50% | 2 | 2 | 2 | 100% | | | Artemisinin-based monotherapy (42) | | | | | | | | | | | Artesunate (oral) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 100% | 11 | 11 | 11 | 100% | | | Artemether (parenteral) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | 21 | 17 | 14 | 82.4% | 32/38 = 84.2% | | Dihydroartemisinin (oral) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 80% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0% | |
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