YAOUNDE, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Cameroon on Monday began giving children doses of antimalarial drugs even before the children are infected, as part of a new approach to curb malaria in the Central African nation.
It was the first time the country was initiating the intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) since it was first launched in 2005 by the World Health Organization, Dorothy Achu, the permanent secretary of the National Malaria Control Program in the Ministry of Public Health, told reporters while officially launching the new strategy at the Soa neighborhood of Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon.
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