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Malaria: A race against resistance

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Several African nations could strike a major blow against malaria by sacrificing the efficacy of some older drugs. Can they make it work?

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    This article wrongly attributed the quote “If we just roll this out without surveillance, we risk repeating all of the mistakes made in the past” to Paul Milligan instead of to Christopher Plowe. The text has now been corrected.

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  1. Amy Maxmen is a freelance science journalist in New York City. Travel for this story was paid for by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington DC.,

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