Malaria News

Comparative genomics in Chlamydomonas and Plasmodium identifies an ancient nuclear envelope protein family essential for sexual reproduction in protists, fungi, plants, and vertebrates.

Africa's Great Lakes region now has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades.

Attending it were officials of the Ministry of Public Health and national institutions, health workers, staff members of international organizations' missions here including the representative of WHO office and the Polish ambassador.

Mauritania is an independent republic which lies mainly in the Sahara Desert belt on the on the bulge of Africa and forms part of the West African Region.

Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" , wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use.

Everyone knows that cockroaches are the ultimate survivors, with enough evolutionary tricks up their carapaces to have thrived for 350 million years and to have completely adapted to the human species.

Noting that the world's second-largest economy received nearly $1 billion from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria over the past decade, but contributed just $25 million, AIDS patients, doctors and advocates from around the world affiliated with AIDS Healthcare Foundation will target China for its misuse of the Global Fund and ... (more)

President Michael Sata is tomorrow expected in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the AU 50 Celebrations and 21st Ordinary Session of the African Union which is scheduled to take place from the 25th to the 27th of May, 2013 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia., Lusaka Times reported.

I am sure Brazil's decision to cancel the purchase of slave labor from Cuba has less to do with morality and more to do with internal politics, but we are happy the end result is the same.

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Malaria is a public health problem in Uganda; affecting mainly women and children.

It became quite the "sticky" situation. The school's principal, Axel Gruen, made a promise to his students that if they raised $1,000 for the Lutheran Malaria Initiative, he would let them tape him to the wall.

If you are going to spend much time in Africa, you will be taking anti-malaria pills.

The number of people in Africa receiving antiretroviral medications increased from less than 1 million in 2005 to an estimated 7.1 million in 2012, according to a new report from UNAIDS.

A malaria drug once widely prescribed to U.S. soldiers could cause symptoms similar to traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorder , one researcher says.

By Steve Zaagman and Chris Zoladz GRAND RAPIDS - They kill more humans than any other animal.

A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, according to new research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In June 1866, an adventurous French expedition consisting of two steam-driven gunboats, filled with liquor, flour, guns and other goods, left Saigon and headed up the Mekong River to find a new inland way to China.

Ng says the VereTrop biochip, which took three years to develop, can detect and identify 26 different types of pathogens that cause 15 types of disease from whole blood or serum samples.

The elimination of malaria has closely followed patterns of urban growth over the past century, raising hope that booming urbanisation in developing nations will lead to further reductions in cases of what is still one of the world's top killers, says a study.