A 3-year-old child in a rural clinic in Mali presents with fever and a positive malaria RDT. The nearest hospital is 6 hours away. The community healt...

Question

A 3-year-old child in a rural clinic in Mali presents with fever and a positive malaria RDT. The nearest hospital is 6 hours away. The community health worker has been trained in integrated community case management (iCCM). What is the WHO-recommended first-line treatment that the community health worker should administer?

Accepted Answer

Oral artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) as a full 3-day course

Answer

Oral quinine for 7 days

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Oral chloroquine

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Rectal artesunate as definitive treatment

Answer

Paracetamol only and referral

uk-dtmh MCQ (SBA): iCCM Malaria Treatment