Advantages | Explanation | N |
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Protecting antimalarial drug compounds | TACTs could protect antimalarial drug compounds by preventing parasites from becoming resistant or attaining higher levels of resistance | 35 |
Improving efficacy | TACTs could provide improved antimalarial efficacy and avoid treatment failure | 34 |
Delaying spread of drug resistance | TACTs could prevent or delay the spread of multidrug resistance both locally and to other regions and continents | 22 |
Less frequent policy shifts | TACTs could require less frequent policy shifts and regulatory procedures, which are both time and resource intensive | 17 |
Consistent communication messages | TACTs could allow consistent communication to health workers and patients in terms of work instructions, training and information dissemination | 16 |
Less logistic disruption | TACTs could result in less frequent logistical and operational disruptions in terms of planning, procurement, import, storage and distribution | 15 |
Accelerating malaria elimination | TACTs could accelerate malaria elimination strategies in Southeast Asia | 11 |
Patient/prescriber preference | TACTs’ three-drug compound regimen could be preferred by health workers and patients over the two-drug compound ACT regimen | 3 |
Reducing pressure on surveillance systems | TACTs could mitigate the pressure of monitoring resistance and drug efficacy levels in areas of resistance | 3 |
Reducing malaria transmission | TACTs could contribute to overall reductions in malaria transmission and infections | 3 |
Scaling up production/cost reduction | TACTs could be profitable for pharmaceutical companies by enabling the scale-up of antimalarial drug production and associated cost reductions | 2 |
Regional solution | TACTs could provide a regional solution instead of a solution that needs to be tailored to individual countries | 2 |
Effectivity on vivax malaria | TACTs could contribute in the battle against vivax and other types of malaria and could provide more time to focus on these other types of malaria | 1 |
Prophylactic effect | TACTs could have a malaria prophylactic effect | 1 |
Reduced pill intake | TACTs could reduce the number of pills and/or the days of treatment compared to current ACTs | 1 |