The Malaria Podcast: Chloroquine

Malaria is a big issue for countries like Uganda. It kills over 600,000 people every year and the most affected are children who are under five years old.There are efforts to combat the disease, and, in this series, we find out if it’s working and hear from Ugandan scientists who are fighting for us to win the war against mosquitoes in particular and malaria in general. In this episode, science journalist Olivia Ndubuisi goes on a journey to understand why a drug that used to treat malaria stopped working.