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Model List of Essential Medicines

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6.5.3. Antimalarial medicines
  1. Amodiaquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 153 mg (as hydrochloride); 200 mg (as hydrochloride)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  2. Amodiaquine + sulfadoxine + pyrimethamine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Solid: 76.5 mg (as hydrochloride) [3] + 250 mg + 12.5 mg [1] dispersible tablets in co-package; 153 mg (as hydrochloride) [3] + 500 mg + 25 mg [1] dispersible tablets in co-package
    Indications
    Malaria
  3. Artemether General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Parenteral > General injections > IM: 80 mg per mL in 1 mL ampoule (oily injection)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  4. Artemether + lumefantrine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 20 mg + 120 mg tablet; 20 mg + 120 mg dispersible tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  5. Artesunate General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Parenteral > General injections > IV: 60 mg in ampoule containing anhydrous artesunic acid with a separate ampoule of 5% sodium bicarbonate solution
    • Oral > Solid: 50 mg tablet
    • Local > Rectal > Other: 50 mg capsules; 200 mg capsules; 100 mg capsules
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  6. Artesunate + amodiaquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 25 mg + 67.5 mg tablet; 50 mg + 135 mg tablet; 100 mg + 270 mg tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  7. Artesunate + mefloquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 25 mg + 55 mg tablet; 100 mg + 220 mg tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  8. Artesunate + pyronaridine tetraphosphate General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 60 mg + 180 mg tablet; 20 mg + 60 mg granules
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  9. Chloroquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Liquid: 50 mg per 5 mL syrup (as phosphate or sulfate)
    • Oral > Solid: 150 mg tablet (as phosphate or sulfate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale Malaria due to Plasmodium malariae
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Parenteral > General injections > IV: 40 mg per mL in 5 mL ampoule (as hydrochloride, phosphate or sulfate)
    • Oral > Liquid: 50 mg per 5 mL syrup (as phosphate or sulfate)
    • Oral > Solid: 150 mg tablet (as phosphate or sulfate); 100 mg tablet (as phosphate or sulfate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  10. Dihydroartemisinin + piperaquine phosphate General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 40 mg + 320 mg tablet; 20 mg + 160 mg tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  11. Doxycycline General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 100 mg (hydrochloride or hyclate); 100 mg dispersible tablet (as monohydrate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Solid: 100 mg (hydrochloride or hyclate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
  12. Hydroxychloroquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    Indications
    Therapeutic equivalent to chloroquine for Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
  13. Mefloquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 250 mg tablet (hydrochloride)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Solid: 250 mg tablet (hydrochloride)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
  14. Primaquine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 7.5 mg tablet (as phosphate); 15 mg tablet (as phosphate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
  15. Proguanil General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Solid: 100 mg tablet (hydrochloride)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
  16. Quinine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Parenteral > General injections > IV: 300 mg per mL in 2 mL ampoule (quinine hydrochloride)
    • Oral > Solid: 300 mg (quinine sulfate or quinine bisulfate)
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
  17. Sulfadoxine + pyrimethamine General information
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For curative treatment
    • Oral > Solid: 500 mg + 25 mg tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
    Section
    Antimalarial medicines > For chemoprevention
    • Oral > Solid: 500 mg + 25 mg tablet
    • Oral > Solid: 250 mg + 12.5 mg tablet
    Indications
    Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum Malaria