3 December 2004

Update to UK Malaria Guidelines

The Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention (ACMP) has published an update to Guidelines for malaria prevention in travellers from the United Kingdom for 2003 .

In part this update includes

• A change in recommendation for Assam in India in response to increasing Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance
• An emphasis that all travellers to the Dominican Republic should be advised to take either chloroquine or proguanil prophylaxis.
• A change in recommendation for Kyrgyzstan.
• Updated information on the use of Malarone in pregnancy.