Antimalarials

Antimalarial medications or simply antimalarials are a type of antiparasitic chemical agent, often naturally derived, that can be used to treat or to prevent malaria, in the latter case, most often aiming at two susceptible target groups, young children and pregnant women. As of 2018, modern treatments, including for severe malaria, continued to depend on therapies deriving historically from quinine and artesunate, both parenteral (injectable) drugs, expanding from there into the many classes of available modern drugs. Incidence and distribution of the disease ("malaria burden") is expected to remain high, globally, for many years to come; moreover, known antimalarial drugs …

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UKHSA: UK Health Security Agency · 16 January 2024 English

The UKHSA Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention updates and reissues these guidelines every year for UK travellers.

....... 36 Table 3. Doses of prophylactic antimalarials for children .............................. treat without delay Recommendations for antimalarials should be appropriate for the destination and 26 Chemoprophylaxis Recommendations for antimalarials should be appropriate for the destination and see Appendix 2. Given the possibility of antimalarials purchased in the tropics being fake or sub-standard (proguanil) Table 3. Doses of prophylactic antimalarials for children Note: Weight is a better guide


HCPF: Department of Health Care Policy & Financing · 2024 English

two of the following therapeutic classes: antimalarials, immunosuppressants and glucocorticoids; AND


Dean Health Plan · 2024 English

2 - APTIVUS CAP ANTIVIRALS 2 - APTIVUS SOLN ANTIMALARIALS 3 - ARAKODA TAB HEMATOPOIETIC AGENTS NC - ARANESP - MISC. 1 - atovaquone susp (MEPRON equiv) ANTIMALARIALS 1 - atovaquone/proguanil tab (MALARONE equiv) chlorhexidine gluconate soln (PERIDEX equiv) ANTIMALARIALS 1 - chloroquine tab (ARALEN equiv) DIURETICS


Berrywood Hospital · 2024 English

................................ 45 5.4.1 Antimalarials ...........................................


GBMC: Greater Baltimore Medical Center · 2024 English

there was confusion regarding availability of antimalarials on campus and the process of acquiring it. We to procure IV Artesunate and to start oral antimalarials in the interim. As the patient had a high parasite


AdventHealth Celebration · 2024 English

.......................................58 ANTIMALARIALS - DRUGS TO TREAT MALARIA .................. .......................................58 ANTIMALARIALS - DRUGS TO TREAT MALARIA ..................


BMS: Bristol-Myers Squibb (United States) · 2024 English

moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin); • antimalarials (e.g., quinine, chloroquine); • azole antifungals


HCPF: Department of Health Care Policy & Financing · 2024 English

two of the following therapeutic classes: antimalarials, immunosuppressants and glucocorticoids; AND


Loughborough Hospital · 2024 English

as antibiotics, antifungals, antivirals and antimalarials. They help humans to fight infections and thus


Geisinger Lewistown Hospital · 2024 English

ANTIHYPERLIPIDEMICS 50 ANTIHYPERTENSIVES 52 ANTIMALARIALS 55 ANTIMYASTHENIC/CHOLINERGIC AGENTS 56 ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL tab) 1 minoxidil (2.5 mg tab, 10 mg tab) 1 ANTIMALARIALS ANTIMALARIAL COMBINATIONS atovaquone-proguanil Requirements / Limits COARTEM 20-120 MG TAB 1 ANTIMALARIALS chloroquine phosphate (250 mg tab, 500 mg tab)


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