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Prophylaxis against malaria

Regulations amending the NHS (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992, which came into effect in England and Wales on 6 February this year, gave general practitioners the power to charge patients for prescribing or providing drugs for prophylaxis against malaria for travel abroad.² This means that private prescription forms will now have to be used to prescribe drugs for prophylaxis against malaria if the drugs cannot be obtained over the counter. The table gives the costs to the patient of a six week course of each of the recommended drug regimens for prophylaxis.

The cost of chemoprophylaxis against malaria for travellers, especially . . . [Full text of this article]

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