Evaluation and pharmacovigilance of projects promoting cultivation and local use of Artemisia annua for malaria

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Willcox, Merlin L ^a,b   Burton, Shelly ^a,b   Oyweka, Rosalia ^c   Namyalo, Rehema ^d   Challand, Simon ^b,e   Lindsey, Keith ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Initiative for Traditional Antimalarial Methods   (United Kingdom)

^c Rural Extension for Africa's Poor (REAP)   (Kenya)

^d Anamed Uganda ^*  (Uganda)

^e ANAMED   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; SUGAR; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DROUGHT; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HONEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; PLANT BREEDING; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TEA; UGANDA; VOMITING; METHODOLOGY; PHYTOTHERAPY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, PARASITIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA;

EID: 79953797150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-84     Document Type: Article

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