Reducing malaria infections among infants

A recent article in PLoS Medicine highlighted that malaria infections among infants can be reduced by 30 percent when antimalarial drugs are given intermittently over 12 months, according to a three-year clinical trial in Papua New Guinea.

The drug regimen has been shown to effectively prevent infections by both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax malaria, the first among antimalarial drugs.

Read the complete article at PLoS Medicine.