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Superbug: an emerging and quickly spreading threat to the race against malaria

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Automated Diagnosis, Automated Diagnostic App, children, diagnosis, eHealth, falciparum, Innovation, malaria eradication, medicine, plasmodium falciparum, Superbug, Treatment, vaccine, xRapid

While the malaria death count in Cambodia dropped to just one case in 2016, a new threat to the race against the disease arises in south-eastern Asia: superbugs. A superbug is a drug-resistant, human-killing parasite that modern medicine struggles to combat.

Infographic on fake medicines and malaria

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malaria, counterfeit, medicine

Fight the Fakes, the Global Campaign to fight fake medicines, has developed and infographic about Fake Medicines and Malaria.

Column: looking for good news on the road to zero malaria deaths

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malaria, zero deaths, Prevention, medicine

Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.

Traveller, there is no road. We make the road by walking.

Antonio Machado (1875-1939)

By George Jagoe

In 2011, RBM revised one of its key objectives for the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP): it called for reducing “global malaria deaths to near zero by end 2015”. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Robert Newman, Director of WHO’s Global Malaria Programme commented: “Reducing malaria deaths to near-zero is the right goal, a goal that we need to make every conceivable effort to achieve. But, let us be clear, it is also a wildly ambitious goal.” (1)

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