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=== Short description ===
'''Malaria kills more than 400,000 people every year. 90% of these people live in Africa and by far themost of them are children under the age of five. According to UNICEF malaria accounts for about onein six of all childhood deaths in Africa.'''
In 1971, after reviewing 2000 candidate recipes, ancient texts, and folk remedies, the Chinesepharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou discovered the Malaria curing power of a plant called ''Artemisiaannua''. It took till 2004 for her invention to be translated into the market entry of an approvedmedicine. For her discovery, Tu received the Nobel Prize in 2015. Today, the so-called ArtemisininCombined Therapies (ACTs) are the only malaria curing medicines that are approved by the WHO.
Other medicines exist, but have lost their effectiveness as the virus has developed a resistance against them. The only African country which produces ''Artemisia annua'' at scale is Madagascar. This is directly linked to the activities of Bionexx. ''Artemisia annua'' is typically grown by smallholder farmers. Due to its specific growing and harvesting conditions, it can be cultivated in the low season as a counter-crop of rice.
For the farmers, this cash crop is an interesting enhancement of their income per hectare. InMadagascar, around 10.000 farmers are supplying to Bionexx and derive about 25% from their annualcash revenue from this.
=== Bionexx Madagascar ===
Back in 2005, two French entrepreneurs had the view to develop a supply chain to cure malaria on thevery continent that is most plagued by this disease: Africa. It took them 10 years of R&D, heavy CAPEXinvestments, hard work and a lot of perseverance to the point where Bionexx:
* is a semi-pharmaceutical company active in the identification, development and production of functional ingredients derived from plants, for use in the pharmaceutical, food and personal care industries.
=== Partnerships ===
We have several existing partnerships focused on research (e. g. with universities and industrialpartners), projects (e. g. local companies and organizations) and the development of activities (localand international companies).
We are open to discuss new opportunities to work together.