What will a single-dose malaria drug mean for people in rural Brazil?

What will a single-dose malaria drug mean for people in rural Brazil?

The first malaria-endemic country to adopt tafenoquine hopes to eliminate the disease by 2035

José de Souza Nogueira is 63 and says he has had malaria more than 130 times. It is an exceptionally high number, even for a country like Brazil, where the mosquito-borne disease is endemic. But doctors agree that it is quite possible for a smallholder farmer who has spent his entire life in rural areas – the mosquito’s preferred breeding ground.

“I work and live alone, selling what I grow: bananas, oranges, sugarcane, cassava … When I have malaria, I can’t tend to the plants,” he says.

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