Saving Lives, Buying Time

For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millionsof lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, thesedrugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that existsthroughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa—currently justover one million per year—are rising because of increased resistance to theold, inexpensive drugs. Althou...