在越南,疟疾是发病率和死亡率最高的疾病之一。每年至少有100万人发病,有3000—4000人因患疟疾而死亡。现用抗疟药的抗性日趋增加,特别是氯喹、奎宁和磺胺多辛-乙胺嘧啶。因此,药物的抗性使整个越南的疟疾形势日益恶化。越南正在从当地生长的黄花蒿(Artemisia annua)中试制自产的青蒿素,并希望用它及其衍生物成为有效、安 Malaria is one of the diseases with the highest morbidity and mortality in Vietnam. At least 1 million people are affected each year, and 3,000 to 4,000 die of malaria. Existing anti-malarial drugs are increasingly resistant, especially chloroquine, quinine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine. As a result, drug resistance has deteriorated the malaria situation in Vietnam as a whole. Vietnam is experimenting with indigenous artemisinin from locally grown Artemisia annua and is hoping to make it and its derivatives effective