Africa - Study U.S.: preventive therapy can reduce malaria infections by AFRICAN VOICES
published on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 11:08
die each year a million people, mostly children
A new preventive therapy for malaria control during periods of transmission in Africa, can reduce infections in children. And 'what emerges from the results of some clinical trials published by the American scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. The therapy is administered two or three doses of a combination of malaria during the season when it's easier than you send. The results obtained from studies conducted in Burkina Faso and Mali, on a sample of about 3,000 children in each country, has been a reduction in infection rates from 70 to 85%. The magazine pointed out that almost all the children slept under insecticide-treated nets: the mosquito, the main defense against malaria in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, provides protection for at least 50% against the parasite transmitted by mosquitoes and responsible infection. A third study in Gambia showed that this treatment reduces the incidence of malaria during the transmission season. An estimated 250 million people contract malaria each year worldwide and one million, mostly children, those who die.
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