Significant stride in the fight against malaria.

22 August 2023

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) today revealed that Brazil has become the first malaria-endemic country to approve the use of single-dose tafenoquine (Kozenis) for children aged two years and above in combination with chloroquine.

Kozenis was developed by UK pharma major GSK (LSE: GSK) in partnership with MMV, a not-for-profit consortium, and was also approved by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) last year. Tafenoquine was also approved by the US Food and Drug Administration under the Krintafel trade name in July 2018, making it then the first new treatment for P. vivax malaria in over 60 years.

This approval by Anvisa, the National Regulatory Agency for Brazil, is a remarkable achievement that promises to revolutionize the landscape of malaria treatment and prevention, MMV noted.

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