The place to head off malaria

A recent op-ed piece by Frank Smithuis, Director of Medical Action Myanmar, and Nick White, Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, highlights the risk of emerging drug resistance on the Thai-Cambodia border and identify Myanmar, with the largest malaria burden in the region, as a potential conduit for the western spread of artmesinin resistance. The pair call for urgent and immediate financial support for large scale action in Myanmar to prevent the further spread of artemisinin-resistant parasites.Read the full story in the New York Times.