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Article: Stilling the chills
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- February 7, 2007
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In a small village near Nairobi, Kenya lives a girl named
Cotecxin. Hers is no African name but the brand name of a popular
Chinese anti-malaria medicine.
The story of how the girl got this name mirrors the story of
China's successful efforts to help Africans combat a long-standing
scourge malaria.
According to the locals, a Kenyan woman contracted malaria during
her pregnancy and was in critical condition. The same thing had
happened to her twice before, and was also a common occurrence in
the lives of many other women in this malaria-afflicted country.
Traditional therapy had proved futile with the woman losing her
baby on both occasions, before she tried Cotecxin, a newly introduced ...