Malaria

Global Fund receives $14.25 billion pledge to help reverse setbacks caused by COVID-19

Leave a Comment / Featured, infectious diseases, Malaria, News, Paludisme / By chris

High- and low-income countries alike last week joined in pledging $14.25 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in the largest single fundraising push for global health. www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-earth-science-satellites-global-fund-s-haul-and-neptune-s-rings? Supporters said the sum was necessary to help reverse setbacks in combating those diseases caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, although the amount fell …

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Journée Mondiale du Moustique 2022: Le changement climatique pourrait aider les moustiques porteurs du paludisme

Leave a Comment / Children, Malaria, Paludisme / By chris

L’Afrique est confrontée à de nouveaux défis dans sa lutte contre le paludisme

World Mosquito Day 2022: Climate change could threaten to expand malaria transmissions in Africa

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, Malaria, Non Communicable Diseases / By chris

Africa faces new challenges in its fight against malaria: the climate is becoming more mosquito friendly just as the insects are evolving to evade the insecticides and the malaria parasites are becoming resistant to medicines that have brought down deaths. In 2020, the World Health Organization estimated approximately 90% of malaria cases and 92% of deaths occurred in Africa. Over 600,000 African children died of malaria in that year alone.

Food supplies run low in Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown; the latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / covid, Featured, infectious diseases, Malaria, News, sars-cov-2 / By chris

A citywide COVID-19 lockdown in China’s financial capital of Shanghai has disrupted food supplies badly, causing a wave of anxiety as residents ration dwindling stores of vegetables and staples. COVID-test requirements for truckers entering Shanghai have caused delays in the delivery of foods and other commodities. Within the city, many food delivery workers have been …

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Malaria and the long road to a vaccine that’s a mixed blessing

How a Malawi Village is Fighting Malaria and Saving Lives

Leave a Comment / Children, Malaria, Malawi / By chris

Malawi had nearly 7 million malaria cases last year, more than a third of the population, with 2,500 lives lost to the mosquito-borne disease. However, one village – Mwikala village in Machinga district – has become a model for how to eradicate malaria and in June was honoured as the first-ever to have zero malaria …

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