NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–SEPTEMBER 24, 2012—A large-scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new cases of the disease among young children during peak transmission season, according to preliminary results from projects run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in two African countries.
Antimalaria medicines have been administered prophylactically to approximately 175,000 children between three months and five years of…
