Malaria

Well, they were using a drug called quinine in Africa to treat Malaria, but now they have tested out a better drug called artesunate. The amounts of deaths annually range from 70,000 to 100,000 in Tanzania alone. With this new drug, they believe that they could save up to 25% more of people affected by Malaria.  When this test was done, less children who were given the drug Artesunate died as opposed to Quinine. Although there are still side affects as per every type of drug, with this new drug, there was less of a chance of going into a coma,
and a less chance of convulsions.

   This is another large problem over in Africa. Not nearly the amount of people in Africa have access to any treatments as we do here in America. I personally never knew that there was a way to treat Malaria so I wanted to research this topic a bit. It excites me to know that people are still researching new and better medicine even though most people in Africa can't pay normal prices for it. Something else that is significant to me, is that here in America we dont see much of Malaria (at least I dont hear about it) and it is nice to know that even though America doesnt have a problem with the disease, people are still working their butt's off to help save the people in Africa.