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Table 2 Age-based dosing: children are given a fraction of the adult dose according to their age

From: Mass campaigns with antimalarial drugs: a modelling comparison of artemether-lumefantrine and DHA-piperaquine with and without primaquine as tools for malaria control and elimination

AL (AM + LF)

DP (DHA + PPQ)

PQ

Age

Dose fraction

Age

Dose fraction

Age

Dose fraction

1 – 3y

0.25

6 m – 2y

0.17

<5y

0.17

3 – 6y

0.5

2 – 6y

0.33

5 – 9y

0.33

6 – 10y

0.75

6 – 11y

0.67

9 – 14y

0.67

>10y

1.0

>11y

1.0

>14y

1.0