Optimal Approach and Strategies to Strengthen Pharmacovigilance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cohort Study of Patients Treated with First-Line Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies in the Nanoro Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Burkina Faso.
Toussaint RouambaPaul SondoKarim DerraSeydou Nakanabo-DialloBiebo BihounEli RouambaZekiba TarnagdaAdama KaziengaInnocent ValeaHermann SorghoFranco PagnoniFati Samadoulougou-KirakoyaHalidou TintoPublished in: Drug design, development and therapy (2020)
This study showed that both passive and active surveillance approaches were useful tools. The HDSS allowed us to capture a few cases of exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy. The passive surveillance approach, which is more likely to be implemented by malaria control programs, seems to be more relevant in the Sub-Saharan African context.