Hundreds of malaria patients participating in a Phase 3 clinical trial in Gabon in West Africa were cured via a single dose of a treatment that utilizes four widely available malaria drugs, according to a new study presented today at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

The advance addresses a pair of problems that have contributed to a stalled fight against a disease that each year kills about 600,000 people: the alarming rise of drug-resistant malaria and the fact that a third or more of malaria patients fail to complete the standard three-day course of treatment, which can both encourage drug resistance and allow curable cases to intensify.

“We found that our single-dose treatment was just as effective as the standard course that typic

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