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Prevention and curative treatment of malaria
Prevention and treatment of malaria disease: the Web site provides general advice to the public and specific medical information to healthcare professionals.
The medical Web site provides general data for people living in malaria affected areaswww.impact-malaria.com aims to provide updated information and recommendations regarding the diagnosis and the treatment of malaria to healthcare professionals.
Advice for prevention: protect yourself from mosquito’s bites
Long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets can protect families from mosquito’s bites. They are recommended by the World Health Organization (W.H.O). Today, preventing malaria with drugs is only recommended for pregnant women in endemics countries and for travellers coming from a non-endemic country. Doctor or pharmacists will prescribe the drug required in line with guidelines of the country.
There is no vaccine against malaria yet although researchers are still working on it.
Malaria: curative treatment
For the treatment of non-complicated malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the W.H.O recommends to use artemisinin-based combination therapy (A.CT.). ACTs are combination of a derivative of Artemisinin (such as artesunate, artemether...) and another antimalarial drug like amodiaquine, mefloquine, etc. Doctors and pharmacists can help you to choose the ACT fitted.
To learn more about malaria’s cure and its prevention, consult the section entitled “Treatment”.
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