{"id":80085,"date":"2024-07-26T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:29:47","slug":"malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines","title":{"rendered":"Malaria drug resistance: Rwanda updates treatment guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda has updated its treatment guidelines for malaria as the disease has got resistant to some commonly used medicines.<\/p>\n<p>For the past six years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised that malaria parasites had started to develop resistance against Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), which are recommended by WHO as the first-and second-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists say millions of lives are at risk unless urgent and radical action is taken to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 malaria scientists from 10 countries made the call to action in the journal Science, as numbers showed that resistance levels have soared in some areas from fewer than 1 percent to more than 20 percent of cases in the space of three years.<\/p>\n<p>Parasites that could resist artemisinin have reportedly spread within various African countries. It is estimated that more than 10 percent of malaria cases are caused by resistant parasites in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The New Times, Dr Aimable Mbituyumuremyi, Malaria Program Manager at Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), noted that Artemisinin resistance is something they know about and have taken steps in reaction to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have updated our treatment guidelines and are developing the anti-malaria drug resistance strategic plan to address this issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In its 2024 integrated malaria control guidelines, RBC noted that in order to fight against malaria resistance emerging in Rwanda, it will pilot the implementation of Multiple First Line Treatment (MFT) strategy, which aims at the deployment of multiple therapies for malaria.<\/p>\n<p>As part of it, Rwanda aims to use three ACTs accepted in the country (Artemether Lumefantrine (AL), Dihydroartemisinic- piperaquine (DHAP) and Artesunate -pyronaridine (ASPY), allowing clinicians to select treatment according to established criteria.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO recommends MFT in areas where there is a high risk of drug resistance, including countries like Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings of the pilot study will inform the adoption and implementation strategies of multiple first line treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Rwanda,\u201d the strategy reads in part.<\/p>\n<p>According to the malaria program mid-term plan published by the health ministry in 2023, Rwanda has made steady progress towards the epidemiological impact targets.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the malaria incidence decreased by 76 percent, from 321 cases per 1000 persons in 2018\/19 to 76 cases per 1000 persons in 2021\/22, surpassing the target of 127 cases per 1000 persons set for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a 74 percent reduction in severe malaria cases from 7,054 (2018\/2019) to 1,831 (2021\/2022) and a 73 percent reduction in malaria deaths from 264 in 2018\/19 to 71 deaths in 2021\/2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Rwanda Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwanda has updated its treatment guidelines for malaria as the disease has got resistant to some commonly used medicines. For the past six years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised that malaria parasites had started to develop resistance against Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), which are recommended by WHO as the first-and second-line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[6325,6324,1729,758,6326],"class_list":["post-80085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-artemisinin-resistance","tag-drug-resistance","tag-malaria","tag-rwanda","tag-rwanda-biomedical-centre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malaria drug resistance: Rwanda updates treatment guidelines - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rwanda has updated its treatment guidelines for malaria as the disease has got resistant to some commonly used medicines ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malaria drug resistance: Rwanda updates treatment guidelines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rwanda has updated its treatment guidelines for malaria as the disease has got resistant to some commonly used medicines ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-26T08:37:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-26T09:29:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/sm_1721973401.01038.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malaria drug resistance: Rwanda updates treatment guidelines\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-07-26T08:37:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-07-26T09:29:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\"},\"wordCount\":421,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/sm_1721973401.01038.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Artemisinin resistance\",\"Drug resistance\",\"Malaria\",\"Rwanda\",\"Rwanda Biomedical Centre\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/malaria-drug-resistance-rwanda-updates-treatment-guidelines\",\"name\":\"Malaria drug resistance: Rwanda updates treatment guidelines - 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