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　　It looks a bit like the coolers used to keep drinks fresh on a sunny day but the cool box being tested in hot Mozambique serves a higher purpose---saving lives from malaria(疟疾).

　　The new cool box is intended to keep malaria medicines at 25 degrees Celsius(77 degrees Fahrenheit) or below in poor rural areas without electricity where the temperature can reach 45 degrees Celsius.

　　“At the beginning, the cool boxes will be used to store malarial drugs,” said Parfait Komlan Edah, advisor to John Snow Incorporated, a US company developing the coolers.

　　“we will change the treatment pattern and procedure because the drugs are expensive and they have to be well stored to be effective,” he said.

　　The project, funded by the US Agency for International Development, started in 2006 and is still at an experimental stage. The coolers are currently being tested in three regions of Mozambique---Maputo, Tete and Zambezia.

　　The tests will determine whether the coolers are adopted for use nationwide.

　　In Mozambique, malaria is the leading cause of death among children admitted to pediatric(儿科的) services and there has been an increase in cases of malaria in recent years.

　　Faced with the sudden increase in malaria, Mozambique’s health ministry last year decided to expand the use of rapid diagnostic tests for the disease that can give a result within minutes.

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