Malaria prevention includes the adoption of different behaviors, including staying in protected areas when possible, minimizing the skin surface exposed to mosquitoes and using insect repellents and mosquito nets during the night.
Furthermore, for malaria, the World Health Organization recommends that prophylaxis be performed with atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline and mefloquine . These drugs must be prescribed by the attending physician based on the geographic area in which one is going, the species of parasites present and the risk of contracting the disease.
Due to the onset of plasmodia resistance to antimalarial drugs, chloroquine is only useful for travelers heading to the Caribbean and Central America north of the Panama Canal.
