Protecting the most vulnerable: The urgent need to include HIV-exposed children in malaria chemoprevention strategies

PLoS Med. 2024 Dec 10;21(12):e1004498. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004498. eCollection 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Raquel González and colleagues discuss the drugs available to HIV-exposed children to prevent malaria infection and the urgent need to evaluate alternative agents.

MeSH terms

  • Antimalarials* / therapeutic use
  • Chemoprevention / methods
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • HIV Infections* / epidemiology
  • HIV Infections* / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Malaria* / epidemiology
  • Malaria* / prevention & control

Substances

  • Antimalarials

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.