MALARIA
May 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Health Organisation is advising countries experiencing a rise in resistance amongst malaria mosquitos to conventional medicines, such as chloroquine, to start promoting new combination treatment. These Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies are derived in part from a Chinese herb, killing malaria parasites very fast, allowing patients to recover rapidly with few side effects. Indeed, the WHO has just added one of these medicines - artemether/lumefantrine - to its Essential Medicines List. The theory is that with the two components of ...
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