Brazil tackles endemic malaria 18 Apr 2008

Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Brazil where governmental officials have announced a new programme to tackle endemic malaria. The state-run pharmaceutical company has joined with the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative to launch a new combination treatment. Malaria mainly afflicts the world's poorest people, but the new programme aims to distribute the pills for free in Brazil, and for just $2.50 per dose around the rest of the world.