The increasing resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to chloroquine (CQ) has created an
urgent need for the evaluation of alternative, effective, safe, cheap, readily available and …

Halofantrine hydrochloride given to 46 Kenyan children with falciparum malaria at 10 mg/kg
for two doses, and to 60 other children at 8 mg/kg for three doses, resulted in rapid parasite …

A community-based programme to ensure prompt and adequate treatment of presumptive
episodes of clinical malaria in children has been established in a rural province of Burkina …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred Nigerian schoolchildren between the ages of 5
and 12 years from two primary day-schools in Akinyele and Onidundu villages …

In 1993, Malawi replaced chloroquine (CQ) with sulphadoxine‐pyrimethamine (SP) as its
first‐line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in children< 5 years of age. To assess the …

Chloroquine can no longer be recommended as the first-line treatment for uncomplicated
malaria in several parts of Africa because of the increasing prevalence of chloroquine …

National malaria management policy is based upon the availability of effective and
affordable antimalarial drugs. This study was undertaken to evaluate the quality of the …

We examined the malaria situation among 489 children under 5 years of age in the rural
villages of Aboh Mbaise, Nigeria, using a combination of a standard questionnaire …

At present, in countries of tropical Africa, chemotherapy is the main and often the only
operationally, administratively, and financially feasible method of malaria control. This …

PIP: 300-400 million acute cases of malaria occur annually worldwide. There are 1-2 million
deaths per year globally, primarily in children. Over 80% of the world's cases of malaria …