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A research work associated with rural sub-Saharan Africa, where majority of families have lost at least one child to a treatable infectious disease (Plasmodium falciparum) due to ineffective antimalarial drugs in the face of increasing resistance is reported. The World Health Organization recommends artemisinin-based combination treatments as first-line therapy for falciparum malaria instead of ineffective chloroquine in all areas where it is endemic at affordable rate.
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Plasmodium falciparum is increasingly becoming resistant to agents such as chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, arteminisinin pills and rectal suppositories, which are the best presumptive treatment in areas in which the organism is highly endemic. Intravenous quinine and oral, rectal, intravenous artemisinins are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are not available in the United States.
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The journal club on global health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has become a magnet for UCLA students, trainees and faculty members who dream and hope for greater global equity in health. These students, like their older counterparts hope to travel all over the world and become global health workers acting as the new medical missionaries.
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