Travelling to Madagascar: health

No specific vaccine is obligatory when leaving Europe or the United States. However, it would be wiser to be up to date as regards prevention against some diseases like tetanus, diphteria, and typhoid...

As you travel in a tropical country, it would be best to have with you an anti-paludic treatment because the risk of paludism always exists in coastal areas, especially in the Eastern coastline. It is however rare in the dry areas of the South. Avoiding mosquitos remains, of course, the most effective precaution, knowing that the anophèle – the principal vector of the paludism – pricks only with fallen the night, the use of repulsive creams and mosquito nets is also advised. Before leaving, ask council to your doctor so that he you prescribes the drug more adapted.

Downtown, various current medicines such as analgesics, syrups, eye lotions, antibiotics, anti-diarrhoea are available in each pharmacy. Most of the time, they are imported from Europe. Medical practices are also abundant in the country's urban centres. In each Province, there are always hospitals to assist those with a serious health problem.