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• In many areas of Africa, chloroquine-resistant malaria is present and chemoprophylaxis is recommended for travelers especially when biking around the countryside. Training Center: How will vaccinations affect cycling performance?
• MMV supports Pfizer's AZCQ clinical trial for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnant women Malaria Venture (MMV) entered into an agreement for the development, access and delivery of a fixed-dose combination treatment consisting of azithromycin dihydrate (AZ) and chloroquine phosphate (CQ) for the Intermittent Preventive Treatment of in pregnancy (IPTp). THE MEDICAL NEWS
• Overall, the hazard ratio for incident diabetes among patients who had taken hydroxychloroquine was 0.62% compared with those who had never taken it (95% confidence interval, 0.42 – 0.92).
• On the other side of the equation, one of the biggest reasons for the increasing incidence of malaria has been the growing resistance of the malaria parasite to the main anti-malarial drug, chloroquine.
• The situation is becoming more difficult because the most widely used antimalarial drug chloroquine is losing its effectiveness.
• During the Vietnam War, however, despite research to find better antimalarial drugs or a vaccine, chloroquine-resistent falciparum malaria from Southeast Asia threatened the U.S. armed forces.
• For many years the treatment of malaria in Africa has relied on chloroquine, sulfadoxine combined with pyrimethamine, and quinine, with the latter being used mainly to treat severe cases.
• Doctors treat malaria by using anti-malarial drugs, such as chloroquine or quinine.
• The cheapest antimalarial drug, chloroquine, is rapidly losing its effectiveness in almost all countries where malaria is endemic.
• Mutations in the P. falciparum digestive vacuole transmembrane protein PfCRT and evidence for their role in chloroquine resistance. The Edge of Evolution