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This book details antimalarial suppositories as emergency, life-saving treatment for severe malaria, especially for patients who cannot take oral therapy in rural areas. It covers drug-resistant malaria, drug discovery, control, and safe delivery.
This book details antimalarial suppositories proposed for emergency life-saving treatment of children and adults suffering from severe and cerebral malaria. It stresses the importance of emergency antimalarial therapy to save the lives of patients who cannot take oral antimalarial treatment in rural areas where modern, life-saving therapy is not available. It considers the use of suppositories and oral treatment for MDR malarias, the control of MDR malaria infections, drug discovery, safe delivery, and drug resistant malaria.
A randomized vaccine trial in Senegal compared two high-titer measles vaccines with a standard one. Though initially promising, the high-titer vaccines were not safe, inducing an excess mortality. This book discusses the scientific, ethical, and political issues of the findings.
