Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

New drug may be more effective at preventing malaria in pregnant women

New drug may be more effective at preventing malaria in pregnant women

Malaria is a mass killer that every family in Africa dreads. In 2013 statistics showed that about 3.2 billion people – almost half of the world’s population – were at risk of malaria. There were about 198 million malaria cases and an estimated 584 000 malaria deaths; of these 90%  occured in sub-Saharan Africa. This […]