Coartem Baby contains two medicines — artemether and lumefantrine — that work together to fight the malaria parasite. These ...

For the first time ever, a malaria treatment has been approved for infants, according to a press release by pharmaceutical company Novartis on Tuesday. Eight African countries participated in the ...

Following the Swiss authorization, eight African nations that participated in a joint regulatory review process are now ...

Novartis said on Tuesday it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat ...

Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the ...

Swiss medicines regulator Swissmedic has approved Coartem Baby, a Novartis anti-malaria drug developed for infants weighing ...

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A 'life-saving' malaria vaccine is being used for the first time in the Ivory Coast, West Africa ...

A health worker administers the malaria vaccine Oxford-Serum R21 to a child in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, July 15. (Diomande Ble Blonde) ...

The Ivory Coast has received the first doses of malaria vaccine from the world’s largest vaccine maker, the Serum Institute of India, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, and began ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Health workers in Ivory Coast started giving children the latest malaria vaccine this past week, the beginning of a regional campaign that experts hope might curb the ...

Ivory Coast administered the first doses of the world’s second malaria vaccine this week, according to the vaccine’s manufacturers, marking the latest development in a decades-long effort to ...