Sentences with phrase «treatment against malaria»

All women received 5.7 mg iron / day through flour fortification during intervention and usual intermittent preventive treatment against malaria.

Not exact matches

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

While the world has made incalculable gains in the struggle against mosquito - borne diseases, new challenges — like resistance to artemisinin treatments for malaria — are now threatening to turn back the clock.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a plan today to deal with a threat that could undermine the recent success in malaria control: the emerging resistance against artemisinin drugs, which are the cornerstone of malaria treatment worldwide.

Medical researchers have developed a new treatment against drug - resistant strains of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite that causes malaria.

A subsidy program intended to drive down the cost of lifesaving malaria drugs called artemisinin - based combination therapies — now considered the most effective treatment against the parasitic disease — was unveiled today in Norway.

Artemisinins are a family of drugs that currently form the frontline treatment against Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

In a huge boost to the global fight against malaria, researchers have discovered how the malaria parasite protects itself by building resistance against the last - line in antimalarial medications, and how a new medical treatment can overcome the parasite's defences.