Tropical & infectious diseases
About 200 000 deaths from malaria each year could be averted if African governments follow new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, soon to be released, and switch from the far less effective medication quinine to artesunate, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
08 April 2011
An exhibition of life in conflict zones, launched on World Health Day (April 7), explores emigration. The show, titled Solidarity for Survival, is an initiative of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and includes photographs of migrants, installations and performances. Read full article
21 April 2011
About 200 000 deaths from malaria each year could be averted if African governments follow new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, soon to be released, and switch from the far less effective medication quinine to artesunate, according to Médecins sans Frontières (MSF). Read the full article
21 April 2011
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week recommended a change in the first-line treatment for malaria that could save nearly 200,000 lives a year, but health activists in Africa are bracing themselves for a potentially long battle in getting the new guidelines implemented...
Quinine has been the drug of choice for treating severe malaria for years, but it is difficult to administer and can have dangerous side effects.
"It requires a lot of calculation," said Veronique De Clerk, medical coordinator for international NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières in the northern Ugandan district of Kaabong. "You need to dilute it into infusions, and those infusions need to run through an IV [intravenous line] for four...
