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Zongo 2007 BFA (Continued)<br />

Novartis)<br />

• 5 to 14 kg 1 tablet twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• 15 to 24 kg 2 tablets twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• 25 to 34 kg 3 tablets twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

• > 35 kg 4 tablets twice daily <strong>for</strong> 3 days<br />

3. Amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, loose <strong>combination</strong> (Flavoquine: Aventis,<br />

Fansidar: Roche)<br />

• AQ 10 mg/kg once daily on days 0 and 1, then 5 mg/kg once on day 2<br />

• SP 25/1.25 mg/kg on day 0<br />

All doses supervized<br />

Outcomes 1. Risk of treatment failure at days 42 and 28, PCR adjusted and unadjusted<br />

2. Gametocyte development during follow up<br />

3. Hemoglobin (mean g/dl) on day 0 and last day of follow up<br />

4. Adverse events<br />

Not included in this review:<br />

1. Fever clearance<br />

2. Parasite clearance<br />

Notes Country: Burkino Faso<br />

Setting: Health dispensaries<br />

Transmission: Holoendemic, transmission principally in the rainy season May to Oct<br />

Resistance: Not reported<br />

Dates: Not reported<br />

Funding: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Holley Cotec Pharmaceuticals, International<br />

Atomic Energy Agency, National Budget of the Institut de Recherche en Sciences<br />

de la Sante<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Item Authors’ judgement Description<br />

Adequate sequence generation? Yes ’Randomly assigned on the basis of a computer-generated<br />

code provided by an offsite<br />

investigator’<br />

Allocation concealment? Yes ’Referred <strong>for</strong> treatment allocation by a<br />

study nurse not involved in enrolment or<br />

assessment of treatment outcomes’<br />

Blinding?<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data addressed?<br />

All outcomes<br />

No ’<strong>The</strong> study was not blinded’<br />

Yes Low losses to follow up in all groups (8%<br />

DHA-P vs 6.4% AL6 vs 8.2% AQ+SP)<br />

Free of selective reporting? Yes All WHO outcomes reported. Day 42 outcomes<br />

may underestimate treatment failure<br />

with DHA-P due to its long half-life.<br />

<strong>Artemisinin</strong>-<strong>based</strong> <strong>combination</strong> <strong>therapy</strong> <strong>for</strong> treating uncomplicated malaria (Review)<br />

Copyright © 2009 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Cochrane</strong> Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

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