The resource-poor countries of Africa have traditionally relied on Western nations for their drug supply, but a new drug development center with a promising antimalarial agent could pave the way for a homegrown pharmaceutical pipeline. Linda Nordling investigates how this one facility at the southern tip of the continent promises to embolden an entire African drug industry.
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29 July 2013
Two photo credits in the July 2013 news feature, entitled “Made in Africa” (Nat. Med. 19, 803–806, 2013), were mistakenly reversed. The picture on page 804 was taken by Katherine Traut, and the picture on page 806 was taken by Peter Rimmel. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Nordling, L. Made in Africa. Nat Med 19, 803–806 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0713-803
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