Topics and Expertise: chemoprevention

UCSF researchers develop a new drug regimen to combat malaria in children

Thu Dec 16, 2021

Child sitting on a bed surrounded by a bed net

UK Department for International Development

A child sits on a bed surrounded by a bed net intended to prevent mosquito bites that could transmit malaria, Kenya. A new drug regimen developed at UCSF offers children improved protection against the disease.

Study shows that monthly doses of two common anti-malarial drugs for the first few years of life can provide 95 percent protection against the disease.

Aweeka co-leads new study of drugs to prevent malaria in young children, pregnant women

Mon Mar 9, 2015

Ute Frevert, false color by Margaret Shear

The plasmodium parasite that causes malaria

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD, a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will co-lead a new five-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address one of the world’s most vexing health problems—preventing malaria, especially in the most...