Firms with a focus on the domestic and regional market have an incentive to distribute their medicines effectively. Local production can create a win-win situation for health and employment.
A scientist at the University of Cape Town’s H3D drug discovery centre.
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Scientists have discovered a second new compound that could eventually be developed into a medicine to help eradicate malaria.
Mefloquine’s chemical structure is based on one of the first malaria drugs, quinine, that comes from the bark of South America’s Cinchona tree.
Cinchona seedlings being packaged for shipment to make quinine, 1943/NLM
Harin Karunajeewa, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Mefloquine was one of around 250,000 chemical compounds tested for malaria-killing activity in the 1960s by the United States military who needed to protect troops from malaria in the tropics.
In Africa, over-treatment happens when a person who has malaria symptoms gets medication without a test.
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Resistance to a commonly used antimalarial medication, Atovaquone, can’t spread to the general human population, a new research found.
A doctor observes mosquitoes to better understand the malaria parasite which has been developing a resistance to the anti-malarial drugs.
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Several countries within southern Africa are on the brink of eliminating malaria. But there are several challenges ahead.
Farmers beat the stalks of sweet wormwood trees to extract the leaves during harvesting in rural China, The plant contains artemisinin, the drug which won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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The drug partly responsible for more than halving the rate of malaria over the last 30 years and which won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has a long history of use.
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine went partly for research done during the Chinese Cultural Revolution based on traditional Chinese medicine. Here’s the story of Project 523.
One child dies every minute from Malaria in Africa.
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Chris Moxon, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Mosquito nets can protect at-risk children from malaria.
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Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and President-Elect of the International Society for Antiviral Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore County