March 25th | Good News round-up: 5 stories to brighten your week

Today’s Good News bulletin looks at five stories that will send you off into the weekend with a smile.

A new treatment for malaria for children aged two to 16 that comes in the form of a single, tiny tablet has been given the go-ahead in Australia. The drug has the potential to save thousands of lives, and Australia’s approval will likely encourage other countries to follow suit.

The newly approved drug, Tafenoquine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, has been called a “radical remedy” for a strain of malaria called Plasmodium vivax.

P. Vivax is the dominant strain outside sub-Saharan Africa, and the most dangerous type of malaria. It is estimated to cause between 4 and 5 million infections each year and claims thousands of lives, notably children, who are four times as likely as adults to be infected.

Find out more about the new treatment here.

The woman making the headlines is Radwa Helmi. She is one of 98 women who were appointed last year to the State Council, one of Egypt’s main judicial bodies, and has become the first to take a seat on the bench as an acting judge.

Reem Mousa, one of the judges appointed last year to the State Council, said it was a historic day for “all Egyptian women and for the Egyptian judiciary in general".

Find out more here, including what Judge Yasmine Helmi has to say about the debate around women assuming judicial positions.

Dengue could have spread to hundreds of thousands of people across South America and Southeast Asia in 2020, were it not for strict quarantine rules, according to research published in medical journal The Lancet.

Oliver Brady, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and senior author of the study, told Euronews: "Although Covid had a lot of negative impacts, one of the