Okay thanks for the information, I appreciate it.
What is your opinion on the low incidence of Covid there? Climate maybe.
Same article posted here with discussion:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4014184/posts
I agree that ivermectin is not used to prevent round worm infestations, only to cure them, at least that is my experience in tropical countries. However it appears a WHO program has been widely distributing ivermectin in some African countries to prevent river blindness.
African countries participating in the WHO program to prevent river blindness have a 28% lower Covid fatality rate (but only 8% lower infection rate) than those African countries that did not, according to preliminary statistical studies (not peer reviewed and further research is certainly needed):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.21254377v1
As for HCQ, it has rarely been used for malaria treatment (let alone prophylaxis) for many years now, as P. falciparum is chloroquine resistanWt in nearly all of sub-Saharan Africa (same as SE Asia).
The good news is that it has been out of use for so many years now that chloroquine-sensitive strains are beginning to emerge:
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-017-2298-y