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. 2014 Oct 10;2014(10):CD000169. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000169.pub3
Chemoprevention regimen Trials
Drug Dose Frequency
Chloroquine 300 mg Weekly Cot 1992 BFA; Cot 1995 CMR; Ndyomugyenyi 2000 UGA; Villegas 2007 THA
Pyrimethamine 100 mg Monthly Morley 1964 NGA
25 mg Weekly Nahlen 1989 NGA
Proguanil 100 mg Daily Fleming 1986 NGA
Pyrimethamine‐dapsone 25 mg/100 mg Every two weeks Greenwood 1989 GMB
12.5 mg/100 mg Weekly Menendez 1994 GMB
Sulfadoxine‐pyrimethamine 1500 mg/75 mg One to two doses Shulman 1999 KEN
Two doses Challis 2004 MOZ; Menendez 2008 MOZ; Njagi 2003i KEN; Parise 1998i KEN
Up to four doses Mbaye 2006 GMB
Monthly Parise 1998ii KEN
Mefloquine 500 mg loading dose, 250 mg weekly for 4 weeks, 125 mg weekly until delivery Weekly Nosten 1994 THA