Malaria experts are changing their advice after a study showed a drug can save more lives than current therapy, the World Bank press review reports Wednesday.
The World Health Organization said it will recommend artesunate, a drug derived from traditional Chinese medicine, for severe malaria.
The move follows a Lancet study that showed using this drug in adults living in areas of low malaria transmission cut deaths by over a third. Previously, doctors often used quinine based drugs to treat severe malaria.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
