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The challenge to avoid anti-malarial medicine stock-outs in an era of funding partners: the case of Tanzania

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, May 2014
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Title
The challenge to avoid anti-malarial medicine stock-outs in an era of funding partners: the case of Tanzania
Published in
Malaria Journal, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-13-181
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Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Winna Shango, Jim Barrington, Rene Ziegler, Tom Smith, Don deSavigny

Abstract

Between 2007 and 2013, the Tanzanian public sector received 93.1 million doses of first-line anti-malarial artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) in the form of artemether-lumefantrine entirely supplied by funding partners. The introduction of a health facility ACT stock monitoring system using SMS technology by the National Malaria Control Programme in mid 2011 revealed a high frequency of stock-outs of ACT in primary care public health facilities. The objective of this study was to determine the pattern of availability of ACT and possible causes of observed stock-outs across public health facilities in Tanzania since mid-2011.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 180 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 21%
Researcher 32 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 11%
Lecturer 11 6%
Student > Bachelor 10 5%
Other 34 18%
Unknown 41 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 13%
Social Sciences 25 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 24 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 13 7%
Computer Science 11 6%
Other 38 20%
Unknown 51 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 January 2015.
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#14,780,519
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#4,228
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#127,784
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#61
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