PLoS Medicine (Aug 2014)

Ethics, economics, and the use of primaquine to reduce falciparum malaria transmission in asymptomatic populations.

  • Yoel Lubell,
  • Lisa White,
  • Sheila Varadan,
  • Tom Drake,
  • Shunmay Yeung,
  • Phaik Yeong Cheah,
  • Richard J Maude,
  • Arjen Dondorp,
  • Nicholas P J Day,
  • Nicholas J White,
  • Michael Parker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001704
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
p. e1001704

Abstract

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Yoel Lubell and colleagues consider ethical and economic perspectives on mass drug administration of primaquine to limit transmission of P. falciparum malaria. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.