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World Service,12 Aug 1998,13 mins

Using Older Drugs To Treat Malaria

Health Matters

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Using older drugs to treat malaria, cutting abortion deaths and a vaccine for typhus. Combining older drugs with new ones for a new attack on malaria and how unsafe abortions can be made safer using drug-induced terminations. Also how the typhus and trench fever epidemics in Burundi are lead to demands for a vaccine.

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