RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Malaria chemoprophylaxis
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 33
OP 36
DO 10.1136/dtb.9.9.33
VO 9
IS 9
YR 1971
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/9/9/33.abstract
AB Malaria eradication has been limited by technical problems, operational failures, financial stringency and administrative shortcomings.1 Malaria chemoprophylaxis, often synonymous with ‘suppression’, is the systematic use of drugs to protect susceptible people in endemic areas. These include all the tropical countries of Africa, Asia and the Americas, except where eradication has been achieved.