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Reassuring Research on Malaria Treatment

A study has provided some reassurance in the use of anti-malarial drugs that have in the past posed risks to women in the early stages of pregnancy.

Malaria testing in Ibo in Mozambique.

Africa: Malaria Treatment in Pregnancy - Reassuring Research

UNIRIN, 14 December 2011

New drugs, based on artemisinin combination therapies, have recently revolutionized malaria treatment, but so far they have not normally been available to women in the early stages… Read more »

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New Malaria Vaccine Shows Effectiveness in Children

First results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the malaria vaccine candidate to provide young African ... Read more »
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