The website contains articles describing malaria treatment according to international guidelines.
The Web site provides general information on malaria to the public and scientific items to healthcare professionals.
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.
Today, there is no vaccine that will definitively prevent against malaria.
Uncomplicated malaria attack can be treated by oral drugs. Only doctors or pharmacists can provide the appropriate antimalarial drug according to the specific parasite responsible for malaria (plasmodium) and according to your personal profile.
If you are a healthcare professional, Guidelines for the treatment of malaria are available in the section “Antimalarials drugs”.