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Advice for the prevention and the 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.
Our objective is to inform persons of countries where malaria is prevalent through partnering with doctors or scientists in these countries. We also want to bring updated information, scientific news and articles to healthcare professionals.
Prevention: drugs, mosquito bed nets...
It is important to protect oneself from a mosquito bite as it transmits the malaria parasite. For this, use bed net treated with insecticide and spray insecticides in bedrooms. This is especially important for pregnant women and children under the age of 5 years-old.
There is no vaccine against malaria yet although researchers are still working on it.
Curative treatment of malaria
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.
If you are a healthcare professional, Guidelines for the treatment of malaria are available in the section “Antimalarials drugs”.
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