Hindawi BioMed Research International Volume 2021, Article ID 5539544, 12 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5539544 Review Article Efforts Made to Eliminate Drug-Resistant Malaria and Its Challenges Wote Amelo 1,2,3 and Eyasu Makonnen 1,2 1Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2Center for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 3Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia Correspondence should be addressed to Wote Amelo;
[email protected] Received 21 January 2021; Accepted 9 August 2021; Published 30 August 2021 Academic Editor: Jane Hanrahan Copyright © 2021 Wote Amelo and Eyasu Makonnen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Since 2000, a good deal of progress has been made in malaria control. However, there is still an unacceptably high burden of the disease and numerous challenges limiting advancement towards its elimination and ultimate eradication. Among the challenges is the antimalarial drug resistance, which has been documented for almost all antimalarial drugs in current use. As a result, the malaria research community is working on the modification of existing treatments as well as the discovery and development of new drugs to counter the resistance challenges. To this effect, many products are in the pipeline and expected to be marketed soon. In addition to drug and vaccine development, mass drug administration (MDA) is under scientific scrutiny as an important strategy for effective utilization of the developed products.