27/11/2022
Early diagnosis and treatment of malaria reduces disease, prevents deaths and contributes to her alone or in combination to prevent malaria infections and their consequences. Preventive chemotherapy includes perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC) seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) and school-aged children (IPTsc), post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PDMC) and mass drug administration (MDA).
These safe and cost-effective strategies are intended to complement ongoing malaria control activities. The best available treatment particularly for P. falciparum malaria is artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT).
The primary objective of malaria treatment is to ensure the rapid and full elimination of Plasmodium parasites to prevent an uncomplicated case of malaria from progressing to severe disease or death. reducing transmission.
WHO recommends that all suspected cases of malaria be confirmed using parasite-based diagnostic testing (through either microscopy or a rapid diagnostic test). Diagnostic testing enables health providers to swiftly distinguish between malarial and non-malarial fevers, facilitating appropriate treatment.
