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हिन्दी — Read in HindiAntimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance in hospitals, on farms and in the environment, and the few new drugs against it. Prelims has asked why multi drug resistance occurs in microbial pathogens in India.
Foundation note: Antimicrobial resistance: how it arises and India's plan
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Drug resistant malaria
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Artemisinin based combination therapies (ACTs) pair a fast acting artemisinin drug with a partner drug that clears remaining parasites.
- Plasmodium vivax relapses because dormant liver forms, hypnozoites, reactivate; primaquine targets them.
- Partial artemisinin resistance linked to kelch13 mutations has spread in Africa.
- India aims to eliminate malaria by 2030.
What changed
18 Jun 2026BriefThe Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, reported that parasites inside reticulocytes, which are rich in antioxidants, tolerate artemisinin's oxidative damage far better than those in mature red cells, so it is not a genetic change. India left WHO's High Burden to High Impact group in 2024. The Hindu, 18 Jun 2026: RGCB scientists uncover new mechanism behind malaria parasite's drug resistance (opens in a new tab) · PIB, 18 Jun 2026: Union Health Minister Shri J.P. Nadda Reviews Dengue and Malaria Preparedness Ahead of the Monsoon Season (opens in a new tab)