Saving Lives, Buying Time

Author: Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0309092183
Category: Medical

Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Download Saving Lives, Buying Time medical books for free.
Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa-currently just over one million per year-are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course.

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