HIV drugs block malaria in tests

Powerful drugs used to treat HIV can also block malaria, researchers have suggested.
A team at Australia's University of Queensland found antiretroviral drugs stopped the parasite that causes malaria from growing.

These drugs also worked on parasites that had developed resistance to common malaria drugs, laboratory tests showed.

The researchers said their findings were particularly important for areas where both HIV and malaria were rife.

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