Chemoprevention strategies reduce malaria disease and death, but the efficacy of anti-
malarial drugs used for chemoprevention is perennially threatened by drug resistance. This …

Background Preventing the emergence of anti-malarial drug resistance is critical for the
success of current malaria elimination efforts. Prevention strategies have focused …

Resistance to antimalarial drugs has often threatened malaria elimination efforts and
historically has led to the short-term resurgence of malaria incidences and deaths. With …

Despite considerable efforts, malaria is still one of the most devastating infectious diseases
in the tropics. The rapid spread of antimalarial drug resistance currently compounds this …

Despite the initiation in 1998 by the World Health Organization of a campaign to 'Roll Back
Malaria', the rates of disease and death caused by Plasmodium falciparum malaria in sub …

Drug resistant malaria is a major health problem; it poses a threat to the lives of millions of
people and renders it less possible for the worldwide eradication programme to attain its …

Drug resistance in malaria Page 1 WHO/CDS/CSR/DRS/2001.4 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
DISTRIBUTION: GENERAL Drug resistance in malaria Peter B. Bloland World Health …

Malaria remains a major public health problem for most of the world. The tragedy remains
that many more malaria patients would survive if they had timely access to good quality …

Among the several'tropical'diseases that affect humans, malaria poses special control
problems due to the i, creasing population at risk from the disease, the difficulties in …

Malaria continues to be a leading cause of death in the tropics, taking the heaviest toll on
children in Africa, where drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum has led to rising malaria …