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Table 2 Child size medicines provisions for tracer conditions in the 2012 Essential Medicines and Health Supplies List of Uganda

From: The “child size medicines” concept: policy provisions in Uganda

Disease

Name of the medicines

Has appropriate strengths for children

Child-friendly dosage form

Evidence based medicine

Recommended as first line in the 2012 UCG

Pneumonia

Cotrimoxazole

+

-

-

+

 

Amoxicillin

+

-

+

-

Malaria

Rectal artesunate

+

+

+

-

 

Artemether Lumefantrine

+

-

+

+

 

Quinine

-

-

+

+

Diarrhoea

ORS

+

+

+

+

 

Zinc sulphate

+

+

+

+

Epilepsy

Phenytoin

+

-

+

+

 

Carbamazepine syrup

+

+

+

+

Asthma

Prednisolone

+

-

+

+

 

Salbutamol nebulizer solution

+

-

+

+

Schistomiasis

Praziquantel

-

-

+

+