Ethics, economics, and the use of primaquine to reduce falciparum malaria transmission in asymptomatic populations

• Main Authors: Yoel Lubell, Lisa White, Sheila Varadan, Tom Drake, Shunmay Yeung, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Richard J. Maude, Arjen Dondorp, Nicholas P.J. Day, Nicholas J. White, Michael Parker
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/34750

© 2014 Lubell et al. Rapidly achieving falciparum malaria elimination could require mass antimalarial treatment of asymptomatic individuals to eliminate the parasite reservoir that sustains malaria transmission. Primaquine is the only licenced antimalarial that kills mature Plasmodium falciparum gam...