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PodcastMSF Frontline ReportsA Better Way to Beat MalariaApril 25, 2011
Sudan 2010 © Kate Geraghty/Fairfax Media For centuries, the drug quinine has been used to treat malaria, a disease that kills close to one million people a year. But now, there’s a new drug - called artesunate - that is more effective, and far simpler and safer to administer than quinine. The WHO has just revised its guidelines calling for artesunate as the treatment of choice for children with severe malaria. Now the international community needs to get behind it.
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