The new price of 37 cents (about R2.80) for children's doses will start from Friday which is World Malaria Day, said the company.

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Novartis provides Coartem to the public sector on a non-profit basis. It has supplied over 160 million treatments since 2001 to malaria-endemic countries.

Children and adolescents account for nearly three-quarters of patients taking Coartem, said Novartis. Malaria affects more than a billion people worldwide and kills a million - mainly under the age of five - every year, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa.- (Sapa)

April 2008

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