Our previous study of single dose artemisinin-naphthoquine (ANT) in adult majority male patients showed it as a safe, tolerable, and very effective treatment for uncomplicated malaria. More data is required to verify safety and efficacy from other age groups before this new drug could be widely used in Primary Health Care (PHC)s in Indonesia. For this study, we modified the 2009 WHO guidelin…
A practical and simple Artemisinin based combination therapy (ACT) with good compliance in adult patients for all malaria species has been shown in the first article: “Efficacy and Safety of Artemisininnaphthoquine versus dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in adult patients with uncomplicated malaria: a multi-centre study in Indonesia”. It is worth to add data safety and efficacy of …
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country after China, India and America. There has been an epidemiological transition. While the prevalence of infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and dengue fever is still high, the incidence of non-communicable diseases is increasing. High rates of morbidity becomes good opportunity to develop medicine for infectious diseases as well as non-c…
WHO has recommended the use of traditional medicine for degenerative diseases. The objective of this study is to evaluate the implementation of CAM doctors practice in using traditional medicine for degenerative diseases in 12 provinces. Data were collected through interviews using questionnaire to CAM doctors purposively. This study showed that 86% of 145 the respondents did CAM practice b…
ABSTRACT Micronutrients are vitamins and minerals. One of the roles of vitamins and minerals Is as an antioxidant that can strengthen the human immune system. The role of vitamin A is more in the maintenance of epithelial cells, which is one of the epithelial cells of the body tissues involved in the non-specific immune system. Vitamin E or a-tocopherol has an important role in erythrocyte m…
This study is part of the study with title "Monitoring drug resistance in subjects with P. falciparum and P.vivax malaria in Kalimantan and Sulawesi, Indonesia" which the objective to assess the efficacy and safety of Dihydroartemisinin - Piperaquine (DHP) in patients with malaria vivax in Kalimantan and Sulawesi. The design of study was a cross-sectional study and prospective evaluation of 87 …