_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: elizamirandaramos@gmail.com; Asian Journal of Research in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 9(1): 7-22, 2020; Article no.AJRIMPS.58781 ISSN: 2457-0745 Hydroxicloroquine, What is the Role of the Drug in the Treatment of COVID-19? A Review Eliza Miranda Ramos 1,2* , Francisco José Mendes dos Reis 1 , Gilberto Gonçalves Facco 3 , Emerson Luiz Lima Araújo 4 , Igor Domingos de Souza 5 , Glícia Caroline Andrade Ramos 6 , Alessandro Carvalho da Fonseca 7 , Iara Barbosa Ramos 8 , Hugo Vieira Ramos 9 and Valter Aragão do Nascimento 1 1 Spectroscopy and Bioinformatics Group Applied to Biodiversity and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate Program in Health and Development in the Midwest Region, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 2 Fundation Brazil – CAPES, Brazil. 3 Graduate Program in Environments and Regional Development, Anhanguera University, UNIDERP, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 4 Ministry of Health, Secretary of Health Surveillance, Department of Strategic Coordination of Health Surveillance, General Coordination of Public Health Laboratories, Brasília-DF, Brazil. 5 Anhanguera University Center of Campo Grande - MS, Superior Course of Technology in Radiology, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 6 Secretary of State for Health of the Federal District, Brasília - DF, Brazil. 7 Brazilian Hospital Services Company - EBSERH/Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 8 Centro Universitário Anhanguera de Campo Grande - MS, Nursing Course, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. 9 Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJRIMPS/2020/v9i130141 Editor(s): (1) Assist. Prof. Lokendra Bahadur Sapkota, Chitwan Medical College, Bharatpur, Nepal. (2) Dr. Aurora Martínez Romero, Juarez University, Durango, Mexico. Reviewers: (1) Ahmed Hassan Osman, Cairo University, Egypt. (2) Alireza Razavi, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/58781 Received 18 June 2020 Accepted 01 July 2020 Published 02 July 2020 Review Article