Unknowns Hamper Global Malaria Fight

Some 60 percent of countries where malaria is endemic lack solid information about the quality of available drugs, which makes it difficult to reduce the number of poor quality and illicit medicines in the market, a study shows.

A young child is given a malaria rapid test at a hospital in Bossangoa.

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