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Top ten malaria innovations
The Guardian
Cutting-edge nanotechnology is being used to develop an affordable, easy to use startphone-like device able to analyse malaria strain DNA from a finger-prick of blood in 15 minutes. This enables a personalised prescription of drug combinations to be ...

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Drug-resistant strains of malaria parasite identified
Fox News
Scientists have discovered a new way to identify drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria, Medical News Today reported. Malaria, which is usually treatable using a drug called artemisinin, occurs when the paraisite P. falciparum ...
New Parasite Strains Resistant To Malaria DrugRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
In 2010, Malaria Killed 660000 People, And Now It's Resistant to the Drugs We ...Smithsonian (blog)
Gene sequencing helps identify drug-resistant malariaNew Scientist
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Ghana Business News
AngloGold Ashanti launches malaria eradication programme - Citifmonline.com
Citifmonline
AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control Programme (AGAMal), in partnership with the Tarkwa-Nsuaeum Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Health Service, has launched the programme in five districts across the Western Region: Ahanta West, Tarkwa Nsuem, ...
AngloGold, Global Fund roll out malaria spraying programmeGhana Business News
Ghanaians should take malaria seriouslyGhanaWeb

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With $3 Billion Annual Shortfall in Controlling Malaria, Replenishing Global ...
Huffington Post (blog)
Since world leaders adopted the Millennium Development Goals in 2000, a broad partnership of Governments, United Nations entities, philanthropies and businesses has combined to protect hundreds of millions of people from malaria. Increased ...
SEYI OJELADE, IbadanNational Daily
UN agencies urge donors to stay committed to fighting malariaTimes of India

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Ghana Business News
Ghanaians should take malaria seriously
GhanaWeb
Ghanaians need to take malaria seriously if the disease is to be wiped out, according to the programmes officer of the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ghana Health Service, James Frimpong. Mr Frimpong, in an interview with Joy FM, said that ...
AngloGold Ashanti launches malaria eradication programme - Citifmonline.comCitifmonline
AngloGold, Global Fund roll out malaria spraying programmeGhana Business News

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Gene sequencing helps identify drug-resistant malaria
New Scientist
Know your enemy and the fight becomes easier. Researchers have pinpointed three sub-populations of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum that appear to be a major force in drug resistance. The findings could help efforts to track the spread of ...
New Parasite Strains Resistant To Malaria DrugRadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
'Fingerprinting' malaria parasite drug resistance offers new tool for tracking ...Wellcome Trust
Malaria resistance - it's in the parasite's genesThe Guardian
Independent Online -GhanaWeb -Radio Australia
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Notre Dame Team to Fight Malaria
HPCwire
“The challenge we have is that we're trying to control and eliminate malaria in a world in which, for example, there are 40 or 50 dominant mosquito species that are important for its spread.” The CI project, he adds, is intended to decrease the ...

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With the help of a warning system which measures the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature, it is possible to forecast the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance.

World Malaria Day: Research into a more efficient treatment for 'vivax malaria'
Medical Xpress
Whilst investment has been increasing in the past years into new treatments for the potentially fatal "malaria tropica", efficient treatment options are still lacking for "vivax malaria". This is a form of malaria which, if left untreated, recurs over ...

Gambia Marks World Malaria Day
AllAfrica.com
The Gambia Thursday joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day with the theme, 'Invest in the future Defeat Malaria'. The celebration, held in Ballanghar in the Central River Region, was presided over by the minister of Health and ...

Dangote Decries Malaria Threat
AllAfrica.com
Dangote, who spoke in Lagos, said that all hands must be on deck to collaborate on how to deal with preventable diseases like malaria, measles and polio, pointing out that the success achieve in these regards is key to stimulation of the nation's ...

Nigeria: Malaria Kills 660000 People Yearly - Unicef
AllAfrica.com
Kano — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has stated that Malaria kills 660,000 people every year, most of them African children, adding that universal coverage of insecticide-treated nets is key in tackling the menace. This was disclosed in ...

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Genetic Fingerprints Track Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasites
Medical News Today
New artemisinin-resistant strains of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum are spreading rapidly in Cambodia, an international group of scientists says in a research paper that also reveals how the drug-resistant strains can be identified ...

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The detective story had begun, as they always do, with a ringing phone. A biologist was on the line. He had found a corpse. A few days later he called a second time, having found another. Soon the calls were coming “again and again,” Melissa A. Miller recalls. “At the h ghest point, we were getting four a day.” As the bodies piled up, so did the questions.

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Wellcome Trust
'Fingerprinting' malaria parasite drug resistance offers new tool for tracking ...
Wellcome Trust
An international team of researchers used new genetic sequencing technologies to analyse the whole genetic make-up, or genomes, of samples of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum. They discovered multiple strains of the parasite that ...

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Drug-resistant malaria parasite discovered - The Statesman
The Statesman
LONDON, 29 APRIL: Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well. The parasites are genetically different from other strains around the world ...

Opinion pieces address World Malaria Day - from News-Medical.Net
News-Medical.net
On Thursday, the international community recognized World Malaria Day, observed annually on April 25. This year's theme was "Invest in the future. Defeat malaria." The following is a summary of opinion pieces published in recognition of the day.

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
New Parasite Strains Resistant To Malaria Drug
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A study by an international team of researchers says that gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of the new strains. The study, published in the journal "Nature Genetics," says the strains are dangerously ...
Malaria resistance - it's in the parasite's genesThe Guardian
Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malariaFRANCE 24
Drug-resistant malaria discoveredBangkok Post
ABC Online -HealthCanal.com -Radio Australia
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CHANNELS
Nigeria Loses N480 Billion To Malaria Annually
CHANNELS
The minister who was represented by the deputy director, Steve Uzodinma said this during the official flag off of the Long Lasting Insecticide Net (LLIN) Universal Campaign in Asaba, Delta State, by the Federal Ministry of Health through the National ...

Hopes that genetic mapping will outwit malaria parasite
Radio Australia
Scientists say new research into the Malaria parasite will provide drugs to combat the ways it's evolving to gain resistance to the current range of anti-malaria medicine. Hopes that genetic mapping will outwit malaria parasite (Credit: ABC). In a ...