China's new anti-malaria drug artemisinin patented by 57 countries

more than 100 experts and scholars from more than 20 countries and regions,, and government officials attended the 2nd International Symposium on Clinical Evaluation of Artemisinin Drugs held in Guangzhou recentlyAt the meeting, China developed the malaria control drug artemisinin compound tablets, caused great concern and high evaluation of the participantsThe fourth-generation artemisinin compound tablets developed by GuangzhouUniversity of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which was successfully developed by the University ofof Guangzhou, obtained a new drug certificate from the State Drug Administration in April2
006, and has applied for patent protection in 57 countries around the world,ofdrugs with full independent intellectual property rights in ChinaClinical trials conducted in several countries have proved that artemisinin compound tablets have the advantages of quick-acting,efficient,adverse reactions
less , can block transmission and so on Compared with similar drugs popular in the international market, the drug a course of treatment for only two days, only one-half to one-third of the treatment of the same drug, the cost of only 50% of the same drug This has resulted in a significant reduction in the amount of medication taken by patients, reduced the financial burden, and facilitated the application of the malaria epidemic in third world countries Li Guoqiao, one of the inventors of artemisinin
in China, and Li Guoqiao, chief professor of the University of of Chinese Medicine of Guangzhou, , also designed the "Rapid Extermination Of Malaria", which is characterized by providing artemisinin compound-based tablets to the sick population, while at the same time by implementing group prevention and group treatment, quickly and completely eliminating the of the source of infection, reverse the malaria epidemic situation in a relatively short period of time " The Rapid Eradication of Malaria Act has been successfully piloted in The Province of Shiju, Cambodia It was that the Rapid Malaria Control Pilot Project was launched in January 2004 for a three-year China-Cambodia Health Science and Technology Cooperation Project It took technicians just 30 months , and the reduced the average child incidence rate in 17 malaria-affected villages from 55.9 per cent before the measures were taken to 1.9 per cent the rapid eradication of malaria projects, no one died of malaria infection in pilot areas Cambodia's health department plans to extend this approach to four surrounding provinces It is understood that , currently has between 300 million and 500 million people a year in malaria worldwide, and more than 1 million people die of malaria each year Poor tropical , subtropical countries are the main areas where malaria is rampant (
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