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Abdoulaye Djimdé, Director of MRTC-Parasito and WANECAM 2, University of Science, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali.

Malaria continues to be a major health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where 92% of the 219 million new cases and 93% of the 435 000 deaths from malaria were recorded in 2017 according to the WHO 2018 report. The disease is responsible for an unacceptable number of hospital admissions and outpatient visits and greatly contributes to poverty in most of sub-Saharan Africa. With the development of artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia, and the risk of expansion to the sub-Saharan Africa region, there is an urgent need for a non-artemisinin-based drug combination for malaria treatment. So far, there are limited numbers of drug candidates and combinations in the pipeline that are not artemisinin-based...

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