Global Malaria News

Report says HIV, malaria are biggest burdens
Daily Monitor
Dr Anne Gasisara, a Uganda Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation expert, said Uganda, like many other resource limited countries, still has a tremendously high disease burden from infectious diseases such as malaria and respiratory infections.

Making living matter programmable - Helping Cure Malaria Today and then ...
Next Big Future
Enriquez introduced Keasling as someone “who in his spare time goes out and tries to build stuff that will cure malaria, and biofuels and the next generation of clean tech, all while mentoring students at this university and at the national labs and ...

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Shell's Movement Against Malaria honored with an Anvil
Philippine Star
Through the Movement Against Malaria's Biyahe ng Kulambo advocacy campaign against the deadly malaria disease, 680,118 innovative insecticide-treated mosquito nets were distributed; 1,360,236 beneficiaries' lives were transformed; 2,000 health ...

Health official in Hodeida - Malaria is spreading
Yemen Post
Abdullah Al-Taiar, a medical researcher established in 2006 in a paper published by BMJ (medical news source) that malaria in Yemen was most fatal to children (pediatric malaria) and remained a "substantial burden to the health services," especially on ...

Ned Rozell: Alaska mosquitoes spreading malaria in birds
Anchorage Daily News
During the last two summers, Ravinder Sehgal and his colleagues captured those mosquitoes in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Coldfoot. The San Francisco State University disease ecologist is part of a team that discovered malaria in several year-round ...

Alaska Dispatch
Northern Alaska mosquitoes transmitting malaria parasites
Alaska Dispatch
The San Francisco State University disease ecologist is part of a team that discovered malaria in several year-round resident birds in both Fairbanks and Anchorage (but not Coldfoot) in 2011 and 2012. Because the malaria showed up in Alaska black ...

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With everything counted, Roton Middle Schoolers malaria fundraiser exceeds ...
The Hour
The money raised goes to a U.K.-based charity called Comic Relief. Each year Comic Relief puts on a big annual fundraiser called Red Nose Day, which raises funds for various causes. This year, the cause was malaria prevention in Africa with the tagline ...

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New Malaria Drug: A Step Towards Eradication?
The Disease Daily
Malaria prevention and eradication has long been a goal of health officials around the world. New research shows promise: a compound with the potential to simultaneously treat and prevent malaria infections. The research, published in Science ...

Prisons adopt residual spraying against malaria...
New Vision
“Malaria infection in prisons is much higher than the national prevalence rate due to the fact that prison's department previously did not have access to control measures, yet detention facilities have all the ingredients favourable for vector breeding ...

US malaria initiative begins indoor residual spraying campaign in Nasarawa
The Guardian Nigeria
DETERMINED to reduce malaria-related deaths by 50 per cent in 19 high-burden countries thus protecting approximately 450 million people, prevent and treat malaria, especially among vulnerable populations (pregnant women and children under five years ...

Alaska mosquitoes spreading malaria in birds
Valdez Star
During the last two summers, Ravinder Sehgal and his colleagues captured those mosquitoes in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Coldfoot. The San Francisco State University disease ecologist is part of a team that discovered malaria in several year-round ...

Mosquito Genetic Complexity May Take a Bite Out of Efforts to Control Malaria
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — BETHESDA, MD – April 1, 2013 -- A surprising research discovery in mosquitoes could affect future prospects for malaria control. A team of scientists from West Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom found that the mosquito ...

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Free nets cause decline in malaria
GhanaWeb
Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, Communications Officer of the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ministry of Health, who spoke in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Tuesday, said in-patient death cases from malaria nationwide ...

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Challenges for malaria elimination in Zanzibar: pyrethroid resistance in ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual house spraying (IRS) are the main interventions for the control of malaria vectors in Zanzibar. The aim of the present study was to assess the susceptibility status of malaria vectors ...

Colonization of Anopheles cracens: a malaria vector of emerging importance
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
Anopheles cracens has been incriminated as a vector for the simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, that is the fifth Plasmodium species infecting humans. Little experimental data exists on this mosquito species due to the lack of its ...

Malaria Prevalence Rate In Ghana Declining
Bernama
ACCRA, March 28 (BERNAMA-NNN-GNA) -- The prevalence rate of malaria is declining in Ghana as a result of free distribution of long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets, says the Communications Officer of the National Malaria Control Programme at ...

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Tanzania makes major advances in malaria and HIV/Aids fight
IPPmedia
HIV/AIDS and malaria infection rates in the country are on the decline, according to the latest national survey released in Dar es Salaam yesterday. The 2011-2012 Tanzania HIV/Aids and Malaria Indicator Survey (THMIS) report launched by President ...
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Prevalence rate of malaria declining in Ghana
Vibe Ghana
The prevalence rate of malaria is declining in Ghana owing to the free distribution of long lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets. Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, Communications Officer of the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ministry of Health ...

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UNICEF (press release)
In a relatively quiet region of Mali, programme targets malaria deaths
UNICEF (press release)
In a relatively peaceful part of Mali, a new programme is addressing pervasive malnutrition and malaria. OUÉLESSÉBOUGOU, Mali, 27 March 2013 – Continuing conflict in the northern part of Mali has had tremendous impact on the country. Mali has also ...

Prevalence Rate Of Malaria Declining In Ghana
Ghana
The prevalence rate of malaria is declining in Ghana owing to the free distribution of long lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets. Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, Communications Officer of the National Malaria Control Programme of the Ministry of Health ...

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