Global Malaria News

Plandai Biotechnology, Inc. Announces Positive Anti-Malaria Test Results Using ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Roger Duffield , Chief Executive Officer of Plandai, commented, "These initial findings provide evidence corroborating previous scientific findings that Epigallocatechin Gallate catechin can kill the malaria parasite. This study involving Phytofare ...

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Funding Approved for Next Period of Malaria Ssf Grant to Tanzania
AllAfrica.com
The Global Fund Board has approved funding in the amount of $63.2 million for the next implementation period of a single-stream-of-funding (SSF) malaria grant to Tanzania. The principal recipient (PR) for this grant is the Ministry of Finance; the ...

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Malaria and HIV Spike as Greece Cuts Healthcare Spending
The Atlantic
Malaria returned because municipal governments lacked the funds to spray against mosquitoes. HIV spiked because government needle exchange programs ran out of clean syringes for heroin addicts. By Stuckler's estimate, the average Greek junkie ...

US Burma and Thailand Launch Anti-Malaria Cooperation Agreement
VOA Khmer
The U.S. and Burma Ambassadors to Thailand, and Thai Permanent Secretary, on Friday afternoon (April 26) launched a trilateral project on preventing and controlling drug resistant malaria along the Burma-Thai border. While Thailand has for decades ...

Research Continues into Drug-Resistant Malaria - Voa
VOA Khmer
A Cambodian scientist is working together with advanced researchers in the United States to study drug-resistant malaria in three major provinces of Cambodia. Dr. Lim Pharath, a research fellow at the US National Institutes of Health, is presently ...

The Guardian
Malaria: finding a preventive strategy that African countries can afford
The Guardian
Every year in sub-Saharan Africa, more than 500,000 children contract cerebral malaria – 110,000 of these will die and many other are left with neurological impairments that can affect their physical and intellectual functioning. Evidence is scarce on ...

At the two-day annual meeting of the RBM Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group, RBM Partners will plan for an expanded coverage with interventions that specifically target malaria in pregnancy (MiP)...

Zimbabwe, Zambia in Joint Malaria Reduction Programme
AllAfrica.com
Zimbabwe has been blaming the high incidence of malaria along its border districts on a lack of collaboration from neighbouring countries in containing mosquitoes. This came after the realisation that malaria cases were too high along the country's ...

Over Seventy People Die of Malaria in Agostinho Neto Hospital
AllAfrica.com
Lubango — About 79 people died of Malaria in the last three months, out of 31.321 cases recoded in the Agostinho Neto Central Hospital in Lubango, southern Huila Province, revealed Tuesday the clinical director of the hospital, Zola Diakusekele ...

Marijuana/Malaria, Dysentery/Dyslexia
Thomaston Times
I was leaving a message with a secretary for someone to call me back the other day and got the last four digits of my phone number backwards. I realized it after I hung up and called her back. While I waited for her to pick up, I thought about telling ...

The New Indian Express
New drug to prevent malaria relapse in the pipeline
The New Indian Express
A unique drug that helps prevent relapse of malaria has been developed by a research group at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The sudden showers witnessed by the city recently has brought in fresh cases of malaria due to water logging ...

Canada commits cash to Global Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria
Toronto Star
Canada's Minister of International Co-operation Julian Fantino on Monday provided another $20 million to the Global Fund — a body created by the G8 and United Nations — to support affordable medicines facilities for malaria. Since 2002, Canada has ...
Harper Government Supports Innovation in the Fight Against Tuberculosis ...Marketwire (press release)
Threatened aid cuts, a big blow to malaria fightICT Update

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Ars Technica
Infecting mosquitos with bacteria could block malaria
Ars Technica
But the mosquitoes that transmit malaria in the Middle East and South Asia, Anopheles stephensi, have resisted attempts to infect them with Wolbachia for the past twenty years or so. Finally, researchers have succeeded in not only infecting A ...

Local church helps cause to end malaria
Alton Telegraph
In 2011, the Alton-based Main Street United Methodist Church set a three-year goal to raise $15,000 for Imagine No Malaria. Members achieved the goal one year early. Malaria is the reason one in five African children never reaches a fifth birthday.

15th Malaria in Pregnancy Working Group (MiPWG) meeting, Financement du Plan d’action global contre le paludisme (GMAP), Business leaders gather in Cape Town to promote the role of the private sector in fighting malaria in Africa, Semisynthetic artemisinin achieves WHO prequalification, Uganda Launches Largest Malaria Prevention Campaign, Switzerland Raises Contribution to Global Fund by 43 Percent, TB, HIV and Malaria Vaccine Research, Bacteria in mosquitoes could help stop spread of malaria...

Malawi malaria report makes the case for investing in public health infrastructure, ‘Fingerprinting’ malaria parasite drug resistance offers new tool for tracking public health threat, IR Mapper Tool Launched, ADVANCED PREPARATORY MEETING OF THE MIM CONFERENCE 2013 COMMUNIQUE...

RBM applauds Australia’s leadership in the Asia-Pacific Malaria Alliance (APLMA), HRH Princess Astrid Commemorates World Malaria Day in Cambodia, RBM Partnership calls for smart investments in malaria control to meet 2015 targets, RBM Partnership calls for smart investments in malaria control to meet 2015 targets, Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) Urges Increased Asian Investment in Fight Against Malaria, Africa bears burden and leads the charge...

Campaign gets ready to kick malaria out at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Twenteeth MERG Meeting, Artemisin conference strengthens dialogue within supply chain to maintain malaria medicines on the market, Trapping Malaria Parasites Inside Host Blood Cell Forms Basis for New Class of Drugs, Penn Study Finds, Training Manual on Malaria Entomology for Entomology and Vector Control Technicians (Basic Level)...

Artemisin conference strengthens dialogue within supply chain to maintain malaria medicines on the market, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and Inovio Pharmaceuticals partner to accelerate development of malaria vaccines and innovative delivery technologies, Abt Associates Awarded New Project to Reduce Malaria in Kenya, L'Initiative 5% sida, tuberculose, paludisme...

Over seventy people die of malaria in Agostinho Neto hospital
AngolaPress
Lubango-About 79 people died of Malaria in the last three months, out of 31.321 cases recoded in the Agostinho Neto Central Hospital in Lubango, southern Huila Province, revealed Tuesday the clinical director of the hospital, Zola Diakusekele. Speaking ...