Antimalarial Herbal Remedies Topic of New Paper by RISE Fellow

A new study by Joseph Nguta, whose work toward his PhD is funded through the Carnegie Corporation of New York-supported Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE), documents medicinal plants that are traditionally used to treat malaria by Kenya’s Msambweni community on the country’s South coast, where the disease is endemic.

The paper, in the March issue of Journal of Ethnopharmacology, discusses work conducted by Nguta at the University of Nairobi, a research center within the African Natural Products Network (RISE-AFNNET), one of five RISE networks. The paper, titled "Antimalarial herbal remedies of Msambweni, Kenya" was co-authored with four other reseachers from University of Nairobi. Article here.