Call for more and better intelligence

Professor Nick White, Chairman of the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand and co-author of two recent papers highlighting the increase of artemisinin resistance on the Thai-Myanmar border, describes the vital weapon to fight the malaria parasite as “more and better intelligence". Quoted in an article in the UK Financial Times' World Malaria Day supplement, Prof White called for a single, cohesive, coordinated group that can acquire information on resistant malaria and how to treat it.