Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 — A simple, inexpensive and surprisingly powerful combination of treatments all but wiped out malaria in a group of H.I.V.-positive children in a study in Uganda, scientists are reporting.

The combination — taking one inexpensive antibiotic pill each day and sleeping under an insecticide-treated mosquito net — reduced the incidence of malaria by 97 percent compared with a control group