Malaria News

When African leaders discussed economic growth in Africa at the African Union Summit, their options were constrained by the growing AIDS epidemic and slow progress on reaching the Millennium Development Goals .

It's been repeated so often that it almost seems an unalterable "fact of death": every 30 seconds, malaria claims the life of another child in Africa.

The global economic crisis poses a "major threat" to the fight against AIDS in Africa as funding for treatment programmes dries up, a top UN official said Thursday.

Just about one-third of people seeking malaria treatment in Kenya received the recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies and some people are being treated with ineffective drugs like chloroquine, which was phased out almost 10 years ago, according to the recently launched 2007 Kenya Malaria Indicator Survey - the country's "first ever ...

An additional 30 million bed nets, the development of life-saving new treatments and new funding to increase access to anti-malarial drugs are announced today in a package of measures by International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, as the UK continues its fight to rid the world of malaria.

Anti-malaria awareness camp held on Tuesday. PUDUCHERRY: If preventing mosquito breeding in clean water sources is the key to keep malaria at bay, early detection and prompt treatment could help in reducing the effects of this vector-borne disease.

Shortages of medicine and other supplies heighten the risk that epidemics of cholera, malaria and other infectious diseases could threaten people who fled the army's ongoing assault against the Taliban.

VETERAN Indian actor Dilip Kumar is receiving treatment for malaria at a private hospital in Mumbai.

South East Asia News.Net Tuesday 30th June, 2009 Malaria infects more than 400 million people worldwide, claiming more than a million lives, most of them children, every year.

COLUMBUS -- Take it from Jim Tressel, now an experienced world traveler. There are few places like Djibouti in early June.

VOA News examines malaria in southern Sudan. In the region, malaria is "widespread" and accounts for "up to 30 percent of all diseases treated by health facilities." It is the "number one killer of children in southern Sudan," though there are "no reliable statistics on the number in southern Sudan who suffer, or die from, malaria," VOA News ...

USAID announced on Thursday a $1 million commitment to a Red Cross project aimed at helping those "living along southern Africa's Zambezi River cope with worsening natural disasters because of climate change," the AP/Washington Post reports.

Glastonbury performers gave their thumb prints to demand Government action to help prevent child deaths in Africa.

CSRwire.com - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 24, 2009 - The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today will award Levi Strauss & Co.

According to new research* carried out by Lloydspharmacy, the UK's leading community pharmacy chain, around 2.1million British holidaymakers and travellers are ignoring the need to protect themselves against malaria.

Seattle's global health focus on malaria is getting the support of the largest Rotary Club in the world.

Scientists have discovered a small new bat species weighing just 5 grams on the Comoros island archipelago in the Indian Ocean, the Natural History Museum in Geneva said.

Evolutionarily speaking, baboons may be our more distant cousins among primates.

REPORTS from Cambodia that malaria is developing resistance to artemisinins have set alarm bells ringing.

WASHINGTON, June 17 Global-Fund-AIDS-TB WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria is currently facing a major financing shortfall.