In the past, when travelers planed to visit tropical countries, their doctors would recommended antimalarial medication to prevent malaria if their destination were malaria risk area. So generally, the doctors had 2 options i.e. prescribe or not prescribe antimalarial prophylaxis depend the area.
The concept of “Standby emergency treatment of malaria (SBET)” is relatively new. It is a good alternative in the low risk area of malaria. In that area, the chance for the traveler to actually get malaria while they travel is low or very low. So the benefit of antimalarial prophylaxis is minimum. Such as, if the estimate . . . → Read More: Standby Emergency Treatment for Malaria (SBET) – A good alternative (1)
