A 35-year-old female asked:
what medication works the best and has the fewest side effects for malaria prevention? mozitec or malarone?
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Dr. Steven Pretorius answered
Specializes in Legal Medicine
Generic equivalents: They are one and the same thing - copies of each other. Just different prices. Take the cheaper one.
Answered on Dec 19, 2018
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Doesn't matter: You should take it around the same time every day though.
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