About us
In 2011, there were approximately 2,000 cases of malaria diagnosed in the UK and each year around 10 people in the UK die of malaria.
It can sometimes be difficult for travellers to get the antimalarials they need: GPs often don’t provide any antimalarial service and recommend the pharmacy; nearly all antimalarials require a prescription, so pharmacists have to send the person back to their GP, but the GP either doesn’t provide private prescriptions or charges up to £25. What’s more the antimalarial advice can sometimes change at every step.
The journey to get an antimalarial can often seem to take longer than a trip to Goa!
knowmalaria was formed to make it easier for travellers to get any antimalarials they may need - either online, with mail order delivery, or from pharmacies or clinics using the knowmalaria service.
Our goal at knowmalaria is to help travellers begin their journey safely and provide them with antimalarials, health advice and tips which could help reduce the number of people coming back to the UK with malaria.
Our Team
Harnek Chera MRPharmS
Our Pharmacist Director formed knowmalaria® in 2009 with a team of pharmacists who knew there had to be a better way for people to get the antimalarials they need. Having registered in 1999 as a Pharmacist, his personal interest in travel identified the need to make travel health advice simpler. Since 2004, his role as Superintendent Pharmacist for a group of UK based community pharmacies has seen him play an extended role with Primary Care Trusts and Local Pharmaceutical Commitees in implementation and delivery of new patient focussed services and he is a member of the Pharmacists Professional Group in the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Adrienne Willcox PhD, RN, M.FTM.RCPS(Glasg)
Our Clinical Director has been training healthcare professionals on travel health for many years and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading nurse-trainers and is a member of the research committee of the International Society of Travel Medicine. Her doctorate researched into how to optimise the communication between traveller and healthcare professional in a travel health consultation
Andrew Halliday CITP
Our IT Director, 8 years ago, built the first web-based travel health informatics and travel health clinical management system. More recently he developed a new IT system to allow one of the UK’s leading pharmacy chains to offer a travel health service. Interestingly, prior to this he spent 5 years studying mosquito repellents!
Graham Hewitt PhD
Our Managing Director, prior to joining knowmalaria, was MD of the UK’s largest private travel clinic network, working with NHS Practices, leading High Street pharmacy chains and some of the UK’s largest companies to deliver travel health solutions.
Our Pharmacy
Our Pharmacy is owned and operated by Health Team Limited t/a knowmalaria®. Registered Pharmacy No. 1109852
Pharmacy services are always provided by UK Pharmacists, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Our Superintendent Pharmacist is Ranjit Guraewal, Registration No. 2023222