PRESUMPTIVE TREATMENT OF MALARIA MAY DELAY DIAGNOSIS

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Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for Malaria

I ntermittent presumptive treatment (IPT) in pregnancy involves giving a curative treatment dose of an effective antimalarial drug at predefi ned intervals during pregnancy. IPT in pregnancy was fi rst introduced in areas of high malaria transmission as a measure to reduce the adverse impact of Plasmodium falciparum malaria based on trials showing that IPT could reduce anaemia in young children...

Malaria Treatment in Children Based on Presumptive Diagnosis: A Make or Mar?

Presumptive Diagnosis and Treatment of malaria in endemic areas has been a subject of intense debate. The effectiveness of this strategy is hindered by the prevalence of other febrile illnesses with symptoms that overlap with that of malaria. Despite, the World Health Organization's (WHO) recent recommendation that malaria should be confirmed with specific tests before treatment, the practice i...

Editorial: presumptive anti-relapse treatment for malaria in military forces.

Time To Move from Presumptive Malaria Treatment to Laboratory-Confirmed Diagnosis and Treatment in African Children with Fever

BACKGROUND TO THE DEBATE Current guidelines recommend that all fever episodes in African children be treated presumptively with antimalarial drugs. But declining malarial transmission in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, declining proportions of fevers due to malaria, and the availability of rapid diagnostic tests mean it may be time for this policy to change. This debate examines whether enough evi...