Abstract
A cohort study was conducted to determine the compliance of travellers with chemoprophylactic advice given over the telephone by the malaria reference advisory service. Travellers who visited their general practitioner first for advice about malaria prophylaxis were often advised to consult a specialist service themselves. Compliance fell in travellers who were given complicated information and those who received conflicting advice when they contacted other advisory services. After returning to Britain 48% of the travellers reported that they were fully compliant with prophylactic advice; over a third of the travellers studied did not maintain prophylaxis on their return.
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