Your best bet is to talk to locals and see what they do. I doubt you will get many on here who truly know much about malaria. It gets taught in Western medical schools because it's reasonably well understood, demonstrates an interesting life cycle of the disease itself, and an interesting disease interaction between species. After your final pathology exam it gets relegated to the 'interesting but useless' part of the brain.
From what I've heard from such locals the best prevention is barrier, not pharmaceutical. Only people who should be taking prophylactic medicines are visitors.
Last edited by slim_slag; 9th Sep 2006 at 09:47.