Impact of health education intervention on the patients’ adherence to malaria Artemisinin-based combination therapy in Kamuli District, Uganda

Abstract

Global malaria control programmes such as approaches to community engagements to deliver malaria control interventions have been successful in controlling malaria. Malaria remains a disease of public health importance especially in African region and Uganda in particular. Strategies aimed at accelerating patients’ adherence to prescribed Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) treatment are needed in the fight to control and eradicate malaria. Previous studies have shown the power of health education in improving patients’ adherence to ACT. The objective of this study was to establish the impact of a community health education intervention on the patients’ adherence to malaria ACT treatment in Kamuli District, Uganda.