Scientists William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu have been rewarded for their unglamorous but vital work on parasites that has improved the lives of millions.
Scientists in France have found how the genes of the malaria parasite adapt to become resistant to artemisinin, one of the most effective remaining antimalarial drugs. Their discovery exposes a serious problem.
Malaria continues to be one of the world’s deadliest diseases, annually infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000, most of them African children. Here are five recent developments that have the potential to bring the disease closer to eradication.
During the past decade, a concerted effort by endemic countries, donors and global malaria partners led to strengthened malaria control…
“Affordable Medicines” sound like an indisputable good, but the Affordable Medicines Facility (AMF) for malaria drugs – administered by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria – has been controversial from the outset.