Policy options for deploying anti-malarial drugs in endemic countries: a population genetics approach

The use of anti-malarial drugs to prevent malaria in the population of malaria-endemic areas.

Anti-malarial drugs have been used in various ways to prevent malaria in the resident populations of endemic areas for nearly 100 years. The primary aim of most early studies was to interrupt transmission. This was rarely achieved, but administration of anti-malarial drugs either through medication of salt or by mass administration frequently led to a marked reduction in the prevalence of malar...

Artemisinin anti-malarial drugs in China

Discovered by Youyou Tu, one of the 2015 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, together with many other Chinese scientists, artemisinin, artemether and artesunate, as well as other artemisinins, have brought the global anti-malarial treatment to a new era, saving millions of lives all around the world for the past 40 years. The discoveries of artemisinins were carried out beginning fro...

The history of anti-malarial drugs.

Fever in a Hyper-Endemic Malarial Area

Note on Economy in the Use of Anti-Malarial Drugs