At the core of the team's malaria-fighting strategy is a self-developed medicine that incorporates the traditional Chinese medicine compound of artemisinin with piperaquine.
The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) of the Federal Ministry of Health says Artemisinin-based combination ...
Malaria infection is now commonly treated with a combination of two drugs - artemisinin and piperaquine. But then malaria parasites started developing a resistance to artemisinin as well - this ...
Some of the clinical compounds used are quinine, amodiaquine, and chloroquine. Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered some non-quinoline-based treatments such as lumefantrine, amodiaquine and piperaquine ...