After artemisinin

摘要

At least US$175 million is needed to halt the spread of malaria parasites that are resistant to artemisinins, says the World Health Organization (WHO). Of this, some $60 million should be used to boost research activities including developing classes of antimalarials to replace the artemisinins, currently the most potent antimalaria drugs. Published last week, the WHO's plan for containing resistance to the drugs also calls for increased monitoring, as only 31 of the 75 countries that should be routinely testing the drugs' efficacy did so in 2010.