Antimalarials

Fansidar is an antimalarial drug consisting of a combination of Sulfadoxine/Pyrimethamine used in the treatment and short-term prophylaxis of chloroquine resistant falciparum malaria.

Coartem is a combination medicine of Artemisinin/Lumefantrine, used to treat non-severe malariacaused by Plasmodium falciparum, when certain other antimalarial medications like chloroquine become ineffective. This medicine is not recommended for use in patients with a severe or complicated malaria. Also, it should not be used for malaria prevention.