Since March, the China’s medical team have been in and out of the villages of the Agua-Grande district of São Tomé e Príncipe to conduct a mass treatment campaign against malaria.
São Tomé e Príncipe has been seriously affected by malaria, where reported 2,000 cases in 2020.
In the past years, with the efforts of the Chinese team, malaria incidence has dropped from 60 percent to 3 percent in the towns near the capitalSão Tomé under the MDA pilot project.
The team, from the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, has the trick up its sleeve — Artequick, a Chinese-developed drug, whose main ingredient artemisinin, now at the forefront of the world’s battle against malaria, was discovered by renowned Chinese scientist Tu Youyou from artemisia annua.
