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Are there countries in which a significant fraction of the population takes it on a regular basis? Presumably these are the same places in which an actually lar
by alimw 7y ago
Are there countries in which a significant fraction of the population takes it on a regular basis? Presumably these are the same places in which an actually large fraction of the population has had malaria and in which there is some naturally evolved resistance to it, so you'd have to control for that...
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThere aren't any. Most regions with high risk of malaria (like India) have malarias that have chloroquine resistance, and the only places without chloroquine resistant malaria are in Central America and the Caribbean. Hydroxychloroquine is even less effective than chloroquine on those chloroquine resistant malarias. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12837731/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12837731/ Most Indians, for example, don't take any antimalarials until they actually have malaria.