One study reported that the vaccine candidate was 53% effective in preventing episodes of clinical malaria in children five to 17 months old.
After six months the scientists observed a 34% decrease in incidence of malaria in those children taking the supplements.
For example, the latest drugs for malaria, based on artemisin, have no child-friendly version, despite the fact that fully 40% of malaria cases occur in children.
In eastern and southern Africa, malaria mortality among children under five was nearly twice as high in the 1990s as in the previous decade.
In a 2004 trial of 2, 000 children in Mozambique the Glaxo vaccine slashed severe malaria cases by about half.
The ancient scourge malaria remains one of the biggest killers of children in the world.
Malaria is the main cause of death for children in Africa, killing a child every 30 seconds, the UN says.
Sure, malaria may kill hundreds of thousands of children a year in Africa, but the link between vaccines and autism, though not based on any actual scientific data, is much more serious.
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Sanofi-aventis, a pharmaceutical firm based in Paris, has been working to develop a new malaria drug for children.
Tests on more than 2, 000 children in several African countries reveal that Lapdap cures significantly more malaria cases than pyri-methamine-sulfadoxine and can help in difficult cases where the latter fails.
Everything about malaria is evil: It kills at least a million children a year, mostly in Africa.
Tests on more than 2, 000 children in several African countries now show that Lapdap cures significantly more malaria cases than pyrimethamine-sulfadoxine and can help in tough cases where it fails.
Malaria kills hundreds of thousands, perhaps a few million people a year, most of them children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria exacts a heavy economic price, in lost productivity, and it means sure death for several million children every year.
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Idol Gives Back, a two-day televised charity event sponsored by Fox, American Idol, and Charity Projects Entertainment Fund to help children and young people in extreme poverty here in the United States and Africa, views malaria as a gateway issue, Edlund said.
Dr. EDENBURG: So, even simple, in our eyes, simple diseases like diarrhea which you can treat quite easily, or simple malaria, yet children can die of it because there is a lack of primary healthcare.
It estimates that some 12, 000 children in the continent die daily from illnesses and conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, malaria and malnutrition.
In Laos, one in 11 children die before the age of five, the majority from preventable and treatable conditions such as malaria, pneumonia and measles.
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