Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
In people with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, consider preventing relapse by giving primaquine base at 0.75 mg/kg bw once a week for 8 weeks, with close medical supervision for potential primaquine-induced haemolysis.
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This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Guidelines for the treatment of malaria
WHO guidelines for malaria, 16 February 2021.
WHO guidelines for malaria, 13 July 2021.
WHO guidelines for malaria, 18 February 2022.
WHO guidelines for malaria, 3 June 2022.
WHO guidelines for malaria, 25 November 2022.
WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee, second edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025
WHO guidelines for malaria, 16 October 2023.
WHO Guidelines for malaria, 14 March 2023
WHO guidelines for malaria, 30 November 2024.
WHO guidelines for malaria, 13 August 2025