<B> AFRICA. </B> Clinton pilots subsidised malaria drugs. Former US President Bill Clinton is launching a programme to make subsidised malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole. The project will make life-saving artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) drugs available at 90 % less than the current market price to a national drug wholesaler, which will then distribute them to rural shops. Malaria, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills up to three million people a year worldwide and makes 300 million seriously ill. 90 % of deaths are in Africa south of the Sahara, mostly among young children. Many of those lives could be saved with modern ACT drugs, but their price puts them out of reach for many people.