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New Novartis drug to be used in treating drug-resistant malaria

Novartis is taking aim at drug-resistant malaria.

Novartis is taking aim at drug-resistant malaria – a growing global problem – by launching clinical trials of the first new antimalarial medicine for many years in nine countries across Africa and Asia.

The Swiss drugmaker, which is working on the mid-stage Phase IIb trial program with the group Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), said on Monday it believed its drug KAF156 could be a "game-changer".

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