Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria
The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensible, global, evidence-based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of:
- Uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups (young children, pregnant women, people who are HIV positive, travelers from non-malaria endemic regions), and in epidemics and complex emergency situations
- Severe malaria
- Tool Designer Organization:
- World Health Organization
- Download:
- Guidelines
in English, in French - Contact:
- Dr Peter Olumese, Global Malaria Programme/WHO
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- These treatment guidelines recommend antimalarials for which there is adequate evidence of efficacy and safety now, and which are unlikely to be affected by resistance in the near future. The aim is therefore to provide simple and straightforward treatment recommendations based on sound evidence that can be applied effectively in most settings.
- Scope of interventions
- Malaria
- Limitations
- The guidelines do not deal with ‘preventive’ uses of antimalarials, such as intermittent preventive treatment or chemoprophylaxis
- Output
- To improve treatment of malaria
- Time frame
- Applicable under currently available treatments
- Potential users
- Primarily policymakers in ministries of health, but also public health and policy specialists working in hospitals, ministries, nongovernmental organizations, and primary health care services, as well as health professionals (doctors, nurses and paramedical officers)
- Skills required
- Some technical knowledge of malaria
- Type of software
- Adobe PDF
- User manual available?
- NA
- Type and length of training required
- NA
- Available languages
- English and French
- Country applications
- All malaria endemic countries
- Last update and version
- 2006