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SUBMITTER: Renschler JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4455082 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Renschler John P JP Walters Kelsey M KM Newton Paul N PN Laxminarayan Ramanan R
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20150420 6 Suppl
Many antimalarials sold in sub-Saharan Africa are poor-quality (falsified, substandard, or degraded), and the burden of disease caused by this problem is inadequately quantified. In this article, we estimate the number of under-five deaths caused by ineffective treatment of malaria associated with consumption of poor-quality antimalarials in 39 sub-Saharan countries. Using Latin hypercube sampling our estimates were calculated as the product of the number of private sector antimalarials consumed ...[more]