On March 16, SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was “maybe worth considering” as a treatment for COVID-19. He got 13,000 retweets. By March 19, President Donald ...

The malaria parasite has a little digestive pouch inside it, rather like a primitive stomach, that turns the toxic products into crystals. This provides a way to contain them and keep them from ...

The discovery of Chloroquine (CQ) in the 1930s revolutionized ... Is it possible to prevent or delay the spread of anti-malaria drug resistance? The answer requires approaches that integrate ...

WHO prequalified a diagnostic test and two drug products to suppport safe and effective treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria ...

The task that faced the cinchona tree hunters was a formidable one. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, it was known that cinchona trees could be found, in relatively small numbers, over a ...

a once popular natural anti-malaria drug made from tree bark. As the ideal model for synthetic malaria drugs in the early 1900s, quinine first paved the way to chloroquine, used around World War II.

Treatment: Malaria is treatable, and starting treatment as soon as possible can often prevent severe illness and death. Chloroquine is often used as an anti-malarial medicine, but there are also ...

People who have been infected with malaria can be treated using drugs, such as Chloroquine and Quinine Sulphate. In 2000 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by governments around ...