[afro-nets] 3 Malaria news items (2)

[Philip Coticelli <pcoticelli@gmail.com>]

3 Malaria news items (2)
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This is going back a few weeks, but just a few comments about
the emerging resistance to Artemisinin described in the article:

The Lancet studies cited are not yet corroborated. They are in
vitro and not clinical studies. Also, it seems that the extent
of increased resistance to artemisinin is very small, and there
is still no evidence of a single treatment failure owing to that
resistance. ACTs are not intended to be a magic bullet for the
disease, but ideally an intermediate step to a vaccine or
stronger technology. ACTs are still the best treatment for com-
plicated malaria in light of spreading resistance to monothera-
pies with chloroquine and SP across Africa. And DDT is surely
the best preventive tool we have in the interim. Both are vital
to the fight against malaria.

Sincerely,

Philip Coticelli
mailto:pcoticelli@gmail.com