Aweeka study details impact of HIV drugs on malaria treatment in children

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a billion people and to overlapping health burdens, including the world ’s highest rates of both malaria and HIV infection.The region ’s children are especially hard hit: Those under age five are more susceptible to malaria and accounted for two-thirds of the 438,000 deaths caused by the disease in 2015, according to theWorld Health Organization (WHO). That is equivalent to a young child dying from the mosquito-borne parasitic...
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