**11.5 Exploitation of compounds active against other diseases**

This technique, also known as drug repurposing, could be used to combat malaria. Existing medicines that were previously used for other purposes could be found to be effective against malaria and repurposed as a new anti-malarial medication. N. M. Pazhayam et al. [112] looked at a variety of FDA-approved drugs that could be repurposed as antimalarials.
