MALARIA: Oxfam mis-understands AMFm

From:	William Brieger
	Oct 24, 2012 6:42 am

Oxfam says AMFm drug going to wrong people but Oxfam mis-understands AMFm

http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e7157

for example

Oxfam’s main criticism of the scheme is that putting the sale

and distribution of antimalarials in the hands of the private sector

means that not only pharmacies “but also unregulated informal

private sellers, such as street vendors, market stall-holders and

grocers” are selling the drugs. It says that such vendors do not

have the ability to “deliver correct diagnosis and treatment for

malaria.

but they mis-understand ...

1) countries have focused on licenses medicine sellers

2) easy solution is to train medicine sellers to use RDTs - if village health workers can do it so can medicine sellers