Malaria, particularly in its severe forms, remains a global health and economic burden. It causes the deaths of more than 600,000 people every year – most of them African children under five.
A new study has revealed alarming evidence of African children with severe malaria beginning to show partial resistance to the world’s most effective malaria drug—artemisinin. This discovery from ...
Researchers have found “disturbing” evidence for the first time that a lifesaving malaria drug is becoming less effective in young African children with serious infections. Photo by GERARD ...