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Making the Switch: Ensuring access to improved treatment for severe malaria in Africa

19 April 2011
 
In its report "Making the Switch," MSF calls on African governments to follow new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, and switch from the far less effective quinine to artesunate, which could avert nearly 200,000 deaths each year. MSF also calls on WHO and donors to support governments so this urgent treatment change can happen quickly.