A clinical trial has suggested these agents may be of use in treating malaria.
There are several families of drugs used to treat malaria.
To treat malaria, you take primaquine either alone or with another medicine once a day for 14 days.
If you are taking this medicine to treat malaria, take the medication every day for 3 days in a row.
No medication is 100% effective in treating or preventing malaria.
For thousands of years, traditional herbal remedies have been used to treat malaria.
There are drugs to treat malaria, but some patients cannot afford them and drug resistance is an increasing problem.
Hydroxychloroquine has been used for many years to treat malaria.
"Twenty years ago African intellectuals didn't want us to treat malaria," he said.
His patent claims it may be used to treat malaria and cancer.