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New Strategy to Combat Antimalarial Drug Resistance in Africa

December 15 , 2022 703 days 502 0
  • World Health Organization unveiled a new strategy to combat antimalarial drug resistance in Africa.
  • Africa is currently highly dependent on artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT).
  • Resistance to artemisinin and the partner drug in ACT therapy result in an increase in treatment failure rates.
  • This can cause a major hurdle in the global fight against malaria.
  • The new WHO seeks to minimize consequences of antimalarial drug resistance in Africa through four pillars strategy.

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