Anti-Malarial

Tackling Malaria

Amyris is committed to ending the devastation caused by malaria – a preventable, curable disease that claims the lives of more than a million people a year. In Africa alone, malaria causes 20% of all childhood deaths, killing 2,000 children every day.

Malaria patients can be treated with highly effective Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs), cocktails of artemisinin and other compounds. But cultivating and extracting artemisinin, which comes from the Chinese Sweet Wormwood plant, is hampered by difficult climate and agricultural conditions. It takes more than 14 months to produce, and availability fluctuates. Lack of access to this vital compound prevents millions of people in the developing world from receiving critical ACTs.

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