artemether
Discontinued
The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
2 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 16 October 2025. Not medical advice.
The TGA does not publish a reason for a shortage, so Voxsanity cannot show one. Nothing on this page is an explanation of why supply is affected — that information is not in the source and is not inferred here.
This is national information. The TGA records shortages for Australia as a whole. There is no state, territory or pharmacy-level stock information in this data, and Voxsanity cannot tell you whether a particular pharmacy has a medicine in stock. Your pharmacist can.
Products affected
COARTEM 20 mg /120 mg artemether/lumefantrine 20 mg/120 mg dispersible tablet blister pack
Tablet, dispersible · ARTG 158527
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Discontinued The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 1 September 2025
- Expected to be resolved
- The TGA does not publish an end date for this record (it records "Unknown"). Voxsanity does not estimate one.
- TGA last updated
- 16 October 2025
What the TGA says is being done
Alternative products are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
RIAMET 20 mg/120 mg artemether/lumefantrine 20 mg/120 mg dispersible tablet blister pack
Tablet, dispersible · ARTG 158523
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- No longer published The TGA no longer publishes a shortage report for this product, so it is not recorded as being in shortage now. The TGA removes a shortage report from its database some months after the shortage ends. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Medium impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as medium impact, meaning some people may need to change brand, strength or product while it lasts.
- Reported from
- 2 July 2025
- Expected to be resolved
- The TGA does not publish an end date for this record (it records "Unknown"). Voxsanity does not estimate one.
- TGA last updated
- 9 July 2025
Terms like ARTG, TGA and PBS are explained in the glossary.
Where this comes from
Source: Medicine Shortage Reports Database, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), © Commonwealth of Australia, reproduced with permission. The TGA does not endorse Voxsanity, and nothing here is presented as a TGA view. Shortage information is free for everyone on this site, with no account and no subscription.
Every product listed above links to the TGA's own shortage record for that product. The TGA's register is organised by product rather than by medicine, so there is no single TGA page covering artemether as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type artemether into its filter box. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 16 October 2026.
Not medical advice. Voxsanity republishes public government health data in plain English. Speak to your pharmacist or doctor about your own medicines. Do not stop or change how you take a medicine because of anything on this page.