A child smiles as she eats a bowl of food with packets of tablets below: use of ACT to prevent malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2008.

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<p>ACT represents the drug artemether/lumafantrine (trade name Coartem) which was first used in 2001 - the dispersable form of the drug for children was not introduced until 2008 (Source: wikipedia)</p>

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A child smiles as she eats a bowl of food with packets of tablets below: use of ACT to prevent malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2008.

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