Malaria drug combination could save lives
Scientists in Gambia in west Africa say they may have found a way of
preventing the Malaria parasite from becoming resistant to treatment.
The breakthrough would not only save lives, but also vast amounts of money.
In a report in the British medical journal, The Lancet, the researchers ,
from the Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia, say a
combination of existing and newer drugs could slow down the spread of the
disease in sub-Saharan Africa where resistance to cheap anti-malaria drugs
is growing.
The report says that after just one day of treatment, more than half the six
hundred children given a combination of the two drugs were free from
infection, considerably more than those receiving just the original
medication. The drugs involved are, pyrimethamine-sulphadoxine, the most
commonly used and a newer medication called artesunate.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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