Before traveling to a foreign country, consider getting your prescription and over the counter medications for travel filled in your home country.
Beware of counterfeit medicines. Some of these medications are produced with counterfeit intent, but most of these medications from foreign countries may have sub standard manufacturing.
http://www.voanews.com/content/un-calls-for-unity-in-fight-against-drug-resistant-malaria/1363767.html
Association South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Being asked to support UN in efforts to slow the spread of drug resistant malaria, especially along the borders of Cambodia and Burma.
UN Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM)
Malaria threatens 2.3 billion people in countries across Asia Pacific region.. IN 2010 the Asia Pacific region had 28 million reported cases of malaria with over 38,00 lives lost.
Scientists are blaming use of single use drugs and sales of counterfeit medication as reasons for growing resistance.
A recent report by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated an analysis of medications for anti malarial collected in Sub-Saharan Africa discovered 35 medications failed standards due to poor manufacturing and another 20 percent failed because they were bogus.
Which could mean up to 1/3 of malaria medication is potentially counterfeit.
Article in BBC news online, health editor Michelle Roberts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18147085
She does note that mortality due to malaria has fallen more than 25% globally since 2000, 33% in the World Health Organization African Region.
http://www.rbm.who.int/keyfacts.html
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