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Nick Lazaredes joins a group of Chinese scientists who are on a quest to find a cure for malaria.
They fly to the island of Moheli, where the Chinese are employing a highly unconventional approach - using the island's population as human guinea pigs.
As Lazaredes reports, the team, led by Professor Song Jiangping, are producing positive results.
Just months after the project started in late 2007, Moheli's infection rate was slashed from 22 per cent to less than two per cent.
But despite these remarkable results against a disease which kills more than a million people a year, the World Health Organisation is keeping its distance from the Chinese project.
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On air: 23rd March 2009
