Recent news on Chloroquine

Antifolate Drugs may Be Effective in Treating P Vivax Malaria  -  May 24, 2007
MedIndia,The researchers found that although chloroquine remains the drug of choice, all three therapies effectively cleared parasites by day 14 and were well

Experts Outline Recommendations For Treating Malaria In The US  -  May 23, 2007
DentalPlans.com,Chloroquine remains the treatment of choice for Plasmodium falciparum acquired in areas without chloroquine-resistant strains. In areas with chloroquine

CDC Urges Prompt Treatment for Travel-Acquired Malaria  -  May 22, 2007
MedPage Today,Chloroquine remains the treatment of choice for the Plasmodium falciparum strain acquired in areas without chloroquine-resistant strains.

Antifolate drugs may be effective in treating P vivax malaria  -  May 23, 2007
NewKerala.com,The researchers found that although chloroquine remains the drug of choice, all three therapies effectively cleared parasites by day 14 and were well

How NAFDAC has saved millions of lives – Akunyili  -  May 15, 2007
Daily Sun,Out of all the chloroquine, amobiciline, and ampicillin we destroyed, we never found up to 20 per cent active ingredient. They were re-labelling expired

Improved Diagnostic Testing and Malaria Treatment Practices in Zambia  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Zambia was one of the first African countries to replace its first-line antimalarial, chloroquine, with artemether-lumefantrine in response to rising rates

Global Malaria Control in the 21st Century  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),The public health impact of chloroquine resistance in Africa. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2001;64(suppl):12-17. ABSTRACT. 3. Lengeler C. Insecticide-treated bed nets

Malaria 2007—Progressing Research, Persisting Challenges  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Chloroquine, which has been used for years to treat vivax malaria, is no longer consistently reliable. Leslie and colleagues 10 explored possible

Uganda: Four New Malaria Drugs in the Offing  -  May 16, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The malaria parasite has become resistant to widely-used drugs, including two inexpensive medications, chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine."

Frequent Traveler Q & A: Protecting your health while on the road  -  May 24, 2007
International Herald Tribune,There is risk from chloroquine-resistant malaria, for which the choice of drugs is between Malarone, doxycyline, or mefloquine. Some drugs can have serious

Genetically Modified Chicory Brings Hope To African Malaria Patients  -  May 9, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,Since the malaria parasite has become resistant to the older, more conventional antimalarial treatments, such as chloroquine, SP etc, WHO recommends ACTs as

Where’s Wolfowitz on World Malaria Day?  -  Apr 26, 2007
Agoravox,In many parts of the world, the mosquito-born parasite has grown resistant to chloroquine, an extremely cheap drug that can be bought for pennies in most

Malaria still lurks in endemic areas  -  May 4, 2007
Hindu,The Task Force on Health and Family Welfare in its report in 2001 had said that the falciparum parasites were becoming increasingly resistant to chloroquine

Malaria fight 'needs more effort'  -  May 23, 2007
Bangkok Post,...but in sub-Saharan Africa, malaria-related deaths have not decreased because the medicine chloroquine has not been effective, the association said.

East Africa: Region Unveils Tougher Measures to Fight Malaria  -  Apr 25, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."Drugs which were formerly used for treatment of malaria, including chloroquine and SP [Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine] have proved ineffective and the

MSF unmasks State Malaria office  -  May 23, 2007
E-Pao.net,...syringes, dust coated glass slides, 2.5 mg-packets of Primaquine Phosphate and loose packets of Chloroquine Phosphate, Bomcha informed.

Artemether-lumefantrine most effective combination therapy for ...  -  May 22, 2007
Aidsmap,In the wake of escalating treatment failures associated with chloroquine and sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP), the World Health Organization (WHO) has

World Health Organization Policy To Fight Malaria With DDT Attacked  -  May 21, 2007
Post ChronicleTo treat those 3400 cases, it dispensed 10.3 million Chloroquine, Amodiaquine and Primaquine tablets! These powerful drugs can cause genetic mutations and

Republic of Congo stepping up fight against malaria  -  May 19, 2007
Africa News,...development of the anopheles mosquitoes, which carries the disease, and human resistance to the usual anti-malaria treatments, particularly chloroquine.

How malaria impoverishes Uganda  -  May 8, 2007
The Monitor, Uganda,...the higher costs of treating the under 5s and other family members in private clinics and urban areas, chloroquine failures which require more expensive

Uganda: Four New Malaria Drugs Invented  -  May 6, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...which is escalating mainly due to multi-drug resistance including the most frequently used and affordable treatments for malaria, such as chloroquine.

Four new malaria drugs invented  -  May 6, 2007
The Monitor, Uganda,...which is escalating mainly due to multi-drug resistance including the most frequently used and affordable treatments for malaria, such as chloroquine.

MALARIA CONTROL MEASURES  -  May 4, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),In areas resistant to conventional anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, Artesunate + Sulphadoxinepyremethamine combination therapy has been introduced.

Malaria Kills Development in Africa  -  May 2, 2007
AllAfrica.com,However, there are major problems of drug resistance, particularly to chloroquine which has been the mainstay of malaria treatment, especially in Africa,

Zanzibar bans 19 clinics over sub-standard tools  -  May 2, 2007
Daily News - TSN,...disease was also owed to the government decision to change the first line drug in treating malaria from Chloroquine to Artemisininbased combination therapy.

Ghana: Presumptive Diagnoses of Malaria Increases Risk of Toxicity  -  Apr 30, 2007
AllAfrica.com,A multi-sectoral task force was formed in Ghana in 2002 in response to the high and ever increasing levels of chloroquine resistance, which approximated

European Alliance Aims to Rid the World of Malaria  -  Apr 28, 2007
Deutsche Welle,...of the disease and mounting evidence that the parasite carried by the mosquito was growing resistant to traditional "monotherapies" like chloroquine.

Nation gets new anti-malarial drug  -  Apr 25, 2007
Daily News - TSN,SP used to cost about 6000/- a dose while not so many years ago, a dose of chloroquine was just 100/-. Parasite resisted the drug, officials said.

Where’s Wolfowitz on World Malaria Day?  -  26 Apr 2007
Agoravox,In many parts of the world, the mosquito-born parasite has grown resistant to chloroquine, an extremely cheap drug that can be bought for pennies in most

Nation gets new anti-malarial drug  -  26 Apr 2007
Daily News - TSN,SP used to cost about 6000/- a dose while not so many years ago, a dose of chloroquine was just 100/-. Parasite resisted the drug, officials said.

East Africa: Region Unveils Tougher Measures to Fight Malaria  -  Apr 25, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."Drugs which were formerly used for treatment of malaria, including chloroquine and SP [Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine] have proved ineffective and the

Tripura battles malaria sting  -  Apr 16, 2007
Calcutta Telegraph,The Union health ministry has been supplying the state health department with “second generation� malaria dru-gs like chloroquine but it has failed to

Drug subsidy may be malaria’s death knell  -  Apr 15, 2007
Business Day,Faced with widespread resistance to older malaria treatments such as chloroquine and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine, African nations are increasingly turning to

Global subsidy plan could improve access to effective malaria ...  -  Apr 12, 2007
International Herald Tribune,ACT replaces the cheaper chloroquine, which has become increasingly ineffective as more resistance to it develops. Introduced in 2004, ACT is now being used

Health experts hail malaria drug subsidy plan for Africa  -  Apr 12, 2007
Africasia,Millions contracting malaria on the continent develop a resistance to cheap anti malaria drugs like chloroquine, used for over 50 years, and governments

New global subsidy mechanism targets at affordable malaria drugs  -  Apr 12, 2007
People's Daily Online,...therapies (ACT) to treat malaria, to replace traditionally-used ones like chloroquine, which increasingly become ineffective due to drug resistance.

Global Fund Eyes Business Help For HIV, TB, Malaria  -  Apr 24, 2007
World Bank Group,Some proposals were rejected because they planned to use conventional malaria drugs such as chloroquine, to which the disease has become resistant in many

Fake Malaria Drugs On the Market  -  Mar 27, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), were introduced after chloroquine-resistant strains of the malaria parasite were identified.

African governments advised to improve malaria diagnosis  -  Apr 23, 2007
Joy Online,Currently, most African countries are replacing chloroquine with ACTs. Kenya has gone in for artemether/lumefantrine, known as coartem, and Ghana has chosen

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The closure of Onitsha Drug Market  -  Apr 12, 2007
Nigerian Tribune,...•Smuggled drugs which include drugs in Federal Government import prohibition list such as Paracetamol, Cotrimoxazole, Metronidazole, Chloroquine, Multivite,

When Onitsha Fake Drugs Went in Flames  -  Apr 16, 2007
This Day (subscription),Five manufacturing factories where children’s syrups such as paracetamol, chloroquine, multivite, coflin and labeled with Lagos and other addresses in

Travel Health Advisory - Malaria in Kingston, Jamaica  -  Apr 19, 2007
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release),No deaths have occurred and there is no evidence of chloroquine resistance among treated cases. Malaria is not endemic to Jamaica. Except for a small number

Malaria epidemic possible in Ja  -  Apr 16, 2007
Cay Compass,Mr. Baugh, who is a medical doctor, warned that the mosquitoes could become resistant to Chloroquine and other drugs which have been used to treat the

Eguarding Against Malaria - Using Insecticide Treated Nets  -  Mar 30, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Only 34 percent of febrile children received anti-malaria treatment (chloroquine) and 17 percent of pregnant women received Intermittent Preventive

When Onitsha Fake Drugs Went in Flames  -  Apr 17, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...quantities of expired drugs with new labels and change the expiration date. The agency gave example of such drugs as chloroquine, Ampicillin and Ampiclox.

Malaria and Tick-Borne Encephalitis in a Warming World  -  Apr 9, 2007
CO2 Science Magazine,...shows all the signs of a disease that has escaped drug control following the evolution of chloroquine resistance by the malarial parasite.

Vital role of healthcare assistants  -  Apr 6, 2007
New Straits Times,According to the organisation’s World Malaria Report, compiled in 2005, a resistance to chloroquine — the drug used to treat the disease — an insufficient

Nigeria: Lambo Urges Nigerians to Fight Malaria Scourge  -  Apr 2, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Lambo also said, that the first line treatment of malaria should not be monocomponent-based as in chloroquine, noting that malaria kills a child in Africa

Iodisation: Nigeria leads dev nations - Akunyili  -  Apr 1, 2007
The Tide,...“Fake drugs lead to resistance; we started with Chloroquine, we became resistant, then we moved to Fansidar, then Halfan, now we are on Artemisinin

Nigeria: Onitsha Drug Market'll Remain Shut - NAFDAC  -  Mar 30, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Ejionueme explained that drugs in the Federal Government import prohibition list, such as paracetamol, cotrimoxazole, metronidazole, chloroquine and

Gore's Policies Keep Africa in the Dark  -  Apr 2, 2007
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR),...they can walk, just like the locals, 20 miles to the nearest clinic, and hope that nurse has something other than chloroquine to treat their malaria.

Buyer beware in freewheeling China  -  25 Feb 2007
The Australian,...still be alive if the preventive drugs they were taking, especially the new products that can be far more effective than chloroquine, were genuine.

Nutrition in pregnancy  -  25 Feb 2007
News Today,...but can be given in pregnancy when needed. Chloroquine can be used for malaria prophylaxis in pregnancy and proguanil is also safe, advises the doctor.

A growing epidemic of deadly fake medications in Asia  -  Feb 20, 2007
International Herald Tribune,Such resistant strains could spread from person to person by mosquito and ultimately render the drug ineffective, as already happened with chloroquine and

Malaria deaths on the rise  -  Feb 18, 2007
Calcutta Telegraph,Health officials believe that a new chloroquine-resistant strain of malaria has developed, as some patients are not responding to this anti-malaria medicine

Where’s the World Bank Plan on Fake Drugs?  -  Feb 20, 2007
Agoravox,This would push out both chloroquine, which is largely ineffective because the parasite that causes malaria has grown resistant to that drug, and fake drugs

Malaria claims 120 lives in Mizoram  -  Feb 17, 2007
Hindu,Doctors said, resistance to malarial virus chloroquine might have been a factor for the increase in the number of deaths due to the disease.

Increasing options available for malaria prophylaxis in children  -  Feb 1, 2007
AAP News (subscription)The emergence of chloroquine resistance has made decisions about chemoprophylaxis more complex. Until recently, the lack of experience with newer

A growing epidemic of fake medications in Asia  -  Feb 21, 2007
CorpWatch.org,Some had chloroquine, an old and now nearly useless anti-malarial. One had a sulfa drug that in allergic people could cause a fatal rash.

Study works toward new malaria drug  -  Jan 31, 2007
Duke Chronicle,After World War II, the anti-malarial drug chloroquine became the top drug for the prevention and treatment of malaria. The parasite responsible for the

Health Officials Urges to Launch Campaign Against Counterfeit ...  -  Feb 7, 2007
MedIndia,Akunyili said that the parasite already has grown resistant to chloroquine and fansidar and that if ACTs became ineffective, it would be difficult to find

Fake drugs are killing thousands  -  Feb 23, 2007
Reuters AlertNet,The real thing has proved especially effective against parasites that have become resistant to older remedies such as chloroquine.

South-east Asia awash with fake drugs  -  Feb 21, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,The active ingredient, known as artesunate, has proved especially effective against malaria whereas older remedies such as chloroquine have long-ago failed

Angola: War, Plague, Pestilence And Death  -  Feb 16, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...will not have changed much, because the high death rate is due to the malaria parasite's resistance to treatments based on chloroquine and amodiaquine.

Despite Modest Advances, Malaria Still a Major Killer in Africa  -  Feb 16, 2007
Inter Press Service (subscription),Chloroquine, formerly the most widely used and economical antimalarial drug, is no longer effective in most of the world because of the resistance to it

Uganda: Movers & Shakers - People Who Cater for Your Health  -  Feb 14, 2007
AllAfrica.com,He in collaboration with the Ministry of Health also worked hard to find an alternative drug for malaria when it became resistant to drugs like chloroquine.

Akunyili advocates campaign against faking of new malaria drug  -  Feb 5, 2007
The Tide,She said that such resistance was noticed on Chloroquine, Fansidar, the normal arteminsinin drug, before the introduction of ACT, adding that if the latest

Troubles come to Thai airport  -  Feb 4, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,Canada's public health agency recommends that all travelers to rural areas of the country and La Altagracia province take chloroquine as a preventive.

Herbal concoctions in convulsion treatment no longer serves the ...  -  Feb 3, 2007
IPP Media - Guardian,The situation is further complicated by the increasing occurrence of P. falciparum parasites that are resistant to chloroquine and other antimalarial drugs.

Uganda: Having to Remove My Pants Before a Fellow Man  -  Feb 1, 2007
AllAfrica.com,I was having one hell of a day, my life all of a sudden had become as bitter as chewing a mouthful of chloroquine tablets while your eyes tear with pepper

Nigeria: What's the Recommended Dose of Polio Vaccine?  -  Jan 31, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...you are told how many times to take Paracetamol for a headache before consulting a doctor; or how many times to take Chloroquine to stop malaria.

Beat the shivers the right way  -  Jan 30, 2007
Newindpress (subscription),Even the very effective and widely used affordable medicine, chloroquine, becomes ineffective because of increasing resistance.

New Tests Promise Rapid and Accurate Detection of Malaria  -  18 Jan 2007
Voice of America...introduced throughout Africa and other countries… is 10 to 20 times higher than the former single drug therapies like chloroquine and amodiaquine ?

Vaccine test aims to help Africa beat the curse of malaria  -  Jan 10, 2007
Monsters and Critics.com,The need for a vaccine has become more important as the use of the age-long potent but cheap drug, chloroquine, as the first line of treatment of

Renege not on promises  -  Dec 31, 2006
Daily News - TSN,Still, one is tempted to ask why it has taken a short period of time, from 2001 to 2006 to discard the SP, when chloroquine kept us alive since colonial

Health Ministry Doing All to Prevent Any Further Outbreak of Malaria  -  Dec 21, 2006
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service,In many parts of the world the falciparum malaria is not sensitive to chloroquine," he informed. Dr. Figueroa further noted that the Ministry was also

Travel Health Advisory - Malaria in Kingston, Jamaica - Undated ...  -  Jan 5, 2007
Government of Canada Newsroom (press release),No deaths have occurred and there is no evidence of chloroquine resistance among treated cases. PHAC is temporarily recommending chemoprophylaxis and

Health - 2006: A Year of Challenges and Achievements  -  Jan 2, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The Federal government adopted ACTs in the country when it discovered rising incidences of malaria resistence to the traditional chloroquine.

A returning scourge reminds us to be disciplined, vigilant  -  Dec 29, 2006
Jamaica Observer,Some strains of plasmodium, the organism which causes the disease, have developed resistance to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and as many as

Genetic Map Offers New Tool For Malaria Research  -  Dec 26, 2006
Medical News Today (press release),...implicated in resistance to the drug pyrimethamine, and also confirmed a region of the genome known to be involved in chloroquine drug resistance.

Immtech Initiates Phase II Of Pafuramidine Maleate (DB289) As A ...  -  Dec 24, 2006
Medical News Today (press release),...are sensitive to treatment with chloroquine. All subjects will be carefully monitored for malaria and promptly treated if they should become infected.

Malaria: still the leading killer  -  Dec 23, 2006
Daily News - TSN,..."This has very much contributed to the failure of chloroquine and SP, particularly in Tanzania," she said. the communities in Tanzania, the introduction of

Malaria cost Nigeria $1.3bn annually - USAID  -  Dec 22, 2006
The Tide,The statement added that in support of the government transition from Chloroquine based malaria therapy to a more effective artmisin based combination (ACT)

Artesunate Amodiaquine Not Fully Acceptable By Ghanaians  -  Dec 21, 2006
Daily Graphic,...a new malarial policy in which the combined artesunate-amodiaquine was declared the first line of treatment for the disease to replace chloroquine.

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