Olliaro P L, Trigg P I
Steering Committee on Drugs for Malaria, UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Bull World Health Organ. 1995;73(5):565-71.
Despite the urgent need of a new antimalarial drugs, particularly those against multiresistant falciparum malaria, only a limited number of drugs are now at an advanced stage of preclinical or clinical development. They include artemisinin derivatives, pyronaridine and benflumetol (all originally developed in China), as well as new antifolate combinations, the hydroxynaphoquinone atovaquone which has a novel mode of action, and a new 8-aminoquinoline which appears more active and less toxic than primaquine. Some of these drugs may become available in the next few years. It is therefore essential to find mechanisms to ensure that they are made available at an affordable price to the populations that really need them.
尽管迫切需要新型抗疟药物,尤其是针对多重耐药恶性疟的药物,但目前处于临床前或临床开发后期阶段的药物数量有限。这些药物包括青蒿素衍生物、咯萘啶和本芴醇(均最初在中国研发),以及新型抗叶酸联合用药、具有全新作用模式的羟基萘醌阿托伐醌,还有一种新型8-氨基喹啉,其活性似乎比伯氨喹更高且毒性更低。其中一些药物可能会在未来几年上市。因此,必须找到相应机制,以确保真正有需求的人群能够以可承受的价格获取这些药物。