Africa: Why Medicinal Plants Could Play a Role in Treating Malaria

[The Conversation Africa] It will take effective prevention, accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment to successfully eliminate malaria. But none of this will help if the causative agents become resistant to the drugs used for treatment. The Conversation Africa's Health and Medicine Editor Joy Wanja Muraya spoke to Dr. Jeremiah Waweru Gathirwa and Ruth Monyenye Nyang'acha researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute about the country's work towards using medicinal plants as a potential anti-malarial drugs.
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news