{"id":6218,"date":"2015-01-04T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psi2030.wpengine.com\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2018-05-22T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:22:52","slug":"ugandans-warned-against-treating-malaria-without-testing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/news\/ugandans-warned-against-treating-malaria-without-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandans warned against treating malaria without testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandans have been warned to avoid taking malaria medicine without a positive test for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking recently during the dissemination of results of Uganda\u2019s ACT (Artemisinin-based combination therapy) watch outlet survey, experts warned against treating people for malaria before testing them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Zacch Akinyemi, the executive director of the Programme\u00a0for Accessible Health Communication and Education (PACE), medication based on clinical diagnosis increases the risk of drug resistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.ug\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=35767:-ugandans-warned-against-treating-malaria-without-testing&amp;catid=34:news&amp;Itemid=114\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article in The Observer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>PACE is PSI&#8217;s network member in Uganda.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","related_practice_areas":[],"related_countries":[],"related_projects":[],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-6218","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"related_practice_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_practice_areas?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"related_countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_countries?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"related_projects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related_projects?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psi.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}