Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Clinical Efficacy of Moringa Oleifera on Malaria Treatment
Moringa oleifera is among the many plants that is used to treat malaria in Africa, and Ghana in particular. The herbal plant contains oleifera alkaloids when administered orally which shows efficacy in reducing Plasmodium falciparum parasites more in humans more than chloroquin related drugs. Moringa leaves were converted to tea bag of 2.5 grams and was given to 50 malaria patients(27 females and 23 males) in 5 separate stages. In this case, every stage was made up of 10 new patients. The healing process of uncomplicated malaria was assessed by using exponential model according to World Health Organizationmandatory time for remission. Looking at the probability figuresobtainedfrom overall survival probabilities in the work, it is reasonable to conclude that a patient whoundergone treatment in the first stage will have a survival probabilityof 0.3, alsothe second stage and the thirdstage have 0.6 and 0.7 survival probabilities. The fourth and fifth stages had their survival probabilities to be beyond 0.8 and hence a malaria patient probability of being cleared from malaria fever in that stage is 0.8 which is obviously high probability of success. For this reason, it is clear that Moringa Oleifera has very propensity of curing uncomplicated malaria and therefore those affected with uncomplicated malaria are admonished to use herbal plant for treatment.

