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Updated Recommendation
A new evidence synthesis was published:2024, WHO guidelines for malaria, 30 November 2024.
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GuidelineWHO guidelines for malaria, 16 October 2023.
Year of Publication2023
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
Status
Retired
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
High
Preventing relapse in P. vivax or P. ovale malaria (2015): To prevent relapse, children and adults (except pregnant women, infants aged < 6 months, women breastfeeding older infants unless they are known not to be G6PD deficient, and people with G6PD deficiency) should be treated with a 14-day course of primaquine in all transmission settings.