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Anti-AIDS drugs effective against malaria

    JOHANNESBURG

    Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have discovered that protease inhibitors, a class of anti-AIDS drugs, are also effective against the parasite that causes malaria.

    According to the BBC, lead researcher Dr Kathy Andrews noted that the findings were particularly important to sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV and malaria were rife and claimed more than a million lives each year.

    Andrews said prohibitive costs made it unlikely that the drugs would be used as a first-line treatment for malaria, but their use was recommended for HIV-positive people who were co-infected with malaria.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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