Current Paediatrics
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 34-41, March 1999

Malaria: new challenges, new treatments

Dedicated to the memory of Patrick Crawley

  • Jane Crawley

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MRCR Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK

Abstract 

Malaria remains a challenge of global significance. This article has attempted to illustrate why the problems of malaria are intensifying, how control policy has changed, and the direction in which it is likely to evolve. The disease has, at last, been recognized as an urgent health priority by WHO and by international governments, which makes one hope that the current horrifying situation in Africa, where a child dies from malaria every 30 seconds, may soon become history.

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PII: S0957-5839(99)90023-4

Current Paediatrics
Volume 9, Issue 1 , Pages 34-41, March 1999

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