TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-term effects of increased adoption of artemisinin combination therapies in Burkina Faso
AU - Zupko, Robert J.
AU - Nguyen, Tran Dang
AU - Somé, Anyirékun Fabrice
AU - Tran, Thu Nguyen Anh
AU - Gerardin, Jaline
AU - Dudas, Patrick
AU - Giang, Dang Duy Hoang
AU - Tran, Kien Trung
AU - Wesolowski, Amy
AU - Ouédraogo, Jean Bosco
AU - Boni, Maciej F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Zupko et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022/2/2
Y1 - 2022/2/2
N2 - Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are the WHO-recommended first-line therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The emergence and spread of artemisinin- resistant genotypes is a major global public health concern due to the increased rate of treatment failures that result. This is particularly germane for WHO designated 'high burden to high impact' (HBHI) countries, such as Burkina Faso, where there is increased emphasis on improving guidance, strategy, and coordination of local malaria response in an effort to reduce the prevalence of P. falciparum malaria. To explore how the increased adoption of ACTs may affect the HBHI malaria setting of Burkina Faso, we added spatial structure to a validated individual-based stochastic model of P. falciparum transmission and evaluated the long-term effects of increased ACT use. We explored how de novo emergence of artemisinin- resistant genotypes, such as pfkelch13 580Y, may occur under scenarios in which private- market drugs are eliminated or multiple first-line therapies (MFT) are deployed. We found that elimination of private market drugs would result in lower treatment failures rates (between 11.98% and 12.90%) when compared to the status quo (13.11%). However, scenarios incorporating MFT with equal deployment of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin- piperaquine (DHA-PPQ) may accelerate near-term drug resistance (580Y frequency ranging between 0.62 to 0.84 in model year 2038) and treatment failure rates (26.69% to 34.00% in 2038), due to early failure and substantially reduced treatment efficacy resulting from piperaquine-resistant genotypes. A rebalanced MFT approach (90% AL, 10% DHA-PPQ) results in approximately equal long-term outcomes to using AL alone but may be difficult to implement in practice.
AB - Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) are the WHO-recommended first-line therapies for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. The emergence and spread of artemisinin- resistant genotypes is a major global public health concern due to the increased rate of treatment failures that result. This is particularly germane for WHO designated 'high burden to high impact' (HBHI) countries, such as Burkina Faso, where there is increased emphasis on improving guidance, strategy, and coordination of local malaria response in an effort to reduce the prevalence of P. falciparum malaria. To explore how the increased adoption of ACTs may affect the HBHI malaria setting of Burkina Faso, we added spatial structure to a validated individual-based stochastic model of P. falciparum transmission and evaluated the long-term effects of increased ACT use. We explored how de novo emergence of artemisinin- resistant genotypes, such as pfkelch13 580Y, may occur under scenarios in which private- market drugs are eliminated or multiple first-line therapies (MFT) are deployed. We found that elimination of private market drugs would result in lower treatment failures rates (between 11.98% and 12.90%) when compared to the status quo (13.11%). However, scenarios incorporating MFT with equal deployment of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin- piperaquine (DHA-PPQ) may accelerate near-term drug resistance (580Y frequency ranging between 0.62 to 0.84 in model year 2038) and treatment failure rates (26.69% to 34.00% in 2038), due to early failure and substantially reduced treatment efficacy resulting from piperaquine-resistant genotypes. A rebalanced MFT approach (90% AL, 10% DHA-PPQ) results in approximately equal long-term outcomes to using AL alone but may be difficult to implement in practice.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000111
DO - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85166371365
SN - 2767-3375
VL - 2
JO - PLOS Global Public Health
JF - PLOS Global Public Health
IS - 2
M1 - e0000111
ER -