The role of chemotherapy in early malaria control and eradication programmes in Thailand.
The use of synthetic antimalarial compounds played a secondary role to the use of residual insecticides in post World War II antimalarial control and eradication campaigns. The discovery of chloroquine-resistant malaria in South East Asia and South America prompted an intensification of antimosquito measures, rather than a thorough investigation of resistance. It was the failure of the antimosquito measures which primarily called a halt to malaria eradication and a return to control. A focus on the role of synthetic antimalarials in Thailand thus aims to provide a complementary view to those histories being constructed around the antimosquito measures.
Power
H J
HJ
Department of Economic and Social History, University of Liverpool, UK.
D000962:Antimalarials / Q000266:history / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D002738:Chloroquine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003634:DDT / Q000266:history; D004351:Drug Resistance; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000266:history / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009032:Mosquito Control; D013785:Thailand
D000962:Antimalarials; D002738:Chloroquine; D003634:DDT