PaxMedica, Inc. announced it has received an urgent request from the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Malawi, asking for emergency access to IV suramin to avert a potential humanitarian crisis brought on by dwindling supplies of drugs used routinely to save lives in that region of Africa. PaxMedica, which just last week announced that it has completed execution of its three pivotal registration/validation batches of PAX-101 (an IV form of suramin), has brought this emergency request to the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine potential impact, if any, on the ongoing development program and NDA submission plans for PAX-101. PaxMedica has previously announced the completion of its recent Type B meeting with FDA in preparation for submitting an NDA for the use of PAX-101 in the treatment of the rare and fatal trypanosomal infection, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, caused by the bite of a tsetse fly.