Throughout these weeks, I have referenced the CDC website extensively. Not only does it provide clear clinical recommendations for both prevention and treatment, it is also the agency responsible for malaria surveillance in the United States. The CDC website also includes treatment protocols for PO Coartem, and IV Artesunate, the artemisinin-based therapies that have been recently approved by the FDA. The CDC offers a hotline for advice for practitioners and information on how to access anti-malarials if they are not locally available:
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/tx_clinicians.htm
For those working overseas, the WHO website is another excellent resource for malaria treatment guidelines. The WHO also has recommendations for malaria prophylaxis in pregnancy, and rapid diagnostic tests which are not currently in use in the US:
http://apps.who.int/malaria/treatmentguidelines.html
If people are interested in global malaria control programs, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership is a good resource:
http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/
And if people are interested in the campaign to make antimalarials accessible and affordable in developing countries, the MSF Access Campaign is another good site to check out:
http://www.msfaccess.org/main/other-diseases/msf-and-malaria/
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