Also south africa, grew up in malaria-hot area. The rule with malaria medication is that either you take it consistently or you don't take it at all. If you t

Also south africa, grew up in malaria-hot area. The rule with malaria medication is that either you take it consistently or you don't take it at all. If you take it consistently, you don't get malaria. If you don't take it, you get sick, you go to hospital, they put on a drop, you're largely fine. If you take it inconsistently, you run the horrible risk of getting malaria, but not having proper symptoms, which means you don't go to hospital early enough, which means you end up with late-stage malaria, which is really bad.