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Nigeria Planning To Manufacture ACTs

April 2006 | Company Finance Alert

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Nigeria is planning to begin the local manufacture artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) to combat malaria. Local drugmaker Emzor has recently started producing ACTs, which are the recommended treatment for the disease. This is because monotherapy anti-malarial drugs frequently causes malarial resistance. Nigeria 16mn doses of ACTs have been ordered through the Global