CAR: Boost for anti-malaria efforts in remote province

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and the Central African Republic (CAR) have embarked on a two-year project to provide low cost malaria treatment in the remote eastern province of Haut Mbomou, boosting countrywide efforts to fight the killer disease. "Now we have [the] necessary means to fight malaria in Haut Mbomou," Dr Daniel-Florent Dignito, the head of medical services in the province, told IRIN on September 21st. "The new low cost treatment of malaria in Haut Mbomou is aimed at assisting the deprived population."