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A simple and fast diagnostic test that can be administered by minimally trained villagers has greatly reduced the problem of wasting expensive treatments on people who had some other kind of fever. All it takes is a drop of blood and a low-cost test strip.

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: Simple bed nets, treated with insecticide, are the single-most powerful weapon against malaria. Their widespread adoption in northern Liberia, for example, has reduced the infection rate in children from more than 60 percent just a few years ago to less than 30 percent today.

: A simple and fast diagnostic test that can be administered by minimally trained villagers has greatly reduced the problem of wasting expensive treatments on people who had some other kind of fever. All it takes is a drop of blood and a low-cost test strip.

: Meticulous record-keeping is a key part of the work being done in the area around Kisumu in Western Kenya. Malaria is highly endemic in the region, which is one of nine sites worldwide where field trials of a promising malaria vaccine have been conducted.

: This child is miserably ill with a confirmed case of malaria, but she’s one of the lucky ones in northern Liberia. In a timely manner, her mother has taken her to a clinic that has the drugs she needs, and her chances of a full recovery are excellent.

A simple and fast diagnostic test that can be administered by minimally trained villagers has greatly reduced the problem of wasting expensive treatments on people who had some other kind of fever. All it takes is a drop of blood and a low-cost test strip.

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