Stone Town · Pemba · Travel Medicine
Zanzibar was supposed to have beaten malaria. The 2024 case count says otherwise.
Get Malarone (atovaquone-proguanil) before you fly to Zanzibar. One pill a day, started a day or two before you land, keeps chloroquine-resistant malaria off the trip. Ready at your pharmacy before you board.
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For years the Zanzibar archipelago was treated as a near-elimination success story, and a lot of travelers booked the beaches assuming the malaria risk had gone with it. Then the islands recorded more than 23,500 confirmed cases in a single rainy-season epidemic between November 2023 and March 2024. CDC still lists malaria risk across Tanzania including Zanzibar and recommends chemoprophylaxis for travelers, and the Plasmodium falciparum strain that dominates the region is chloroquine-resistant, so the protective options are atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline, mefloquine, or tafenoquine. Anopheles mosquitoes bite from dusk through dawn, which is exactly when you are at a beach bonfire in Nungwi, walking back through Stone Town after dinner, or up early for a Pemba dive boat. Recent returning-traveler cases in Europe shared one thing in common: none of them had taken a malaria pill. Sort the antimalarial before you board.
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Zanzibar medication FAQ
- Yes. CDC lists malaria risk across Tanzania including the Zanzibar archipelago and recommends chemoprophylaxis for travelers. Zanzibar was widely treated as a near-elimination success for years, but the islands recorded more than 23,500 confirmed cases during a single rainy-season epidemic between November 2023 and March 2024, which is a clear reminder the risk has not gone away. The Plasmodium falciparum strain that dominates the region is chloroquine-resistant, so chloroquine is not protective. CDC-recommended options are atovaquone-proguanil (Malarone), doxycycline, mefloquine, or tafenoquine. Anopheles mosquitoes bite from dusk through dawn, which lines up with beach bonfires in Nungwi, evening walks through Stone Town, and pre-dawn Pemba dive boats. Malarone is one of CDC's first-line options because it has the shortest pre-trip and post-trip dosing window of any malaria pill.
Sort the malaria pill before the flight to Zanzibar.
One visit, three prescriptions for the island trip you booked for the beaches. Reviewed by a US-licensed provider, ready at your pharmacy before you fly to Tanzania.