The Melbourne Newsroom

The World Malaria Report 2010 documents progress in malaria control that can be achieved when adequate funding is provided for currently available measures to be applied, with several countries having been able to achieve substantial reduction in the number of cases of malaria and two countries certified as having eliminated Malaria in 2009.
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Researchers are a step closer to developing new antimalarial drugs after discovering the normal function of a set of proteins related to the malaria parasite protein, which causes resistance to the front-line drug chloroquine. The findings also provide a novel tool for studying the malarial chloroquine-resistance factor.