Liberia: Major Step in Malaria Prevention As Three West African Countries Roll Out Vaccine
[GAVI] Cotonou/Freetown/Monrovia -- In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries - Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone - today launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations. The vaccine rollout, announced on World Malaria Day, seeks to further scale up vaccine deployment in the African region.Today's launch brings to eight the number of countries on the continent to offer the malaria vaccine as part of the childhood (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 25, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Benin Children and Youth Health and Medicine Liberia Malaria NGOs and Civil Society Sierra Leone West Africa Source Type: news
Malaria is still killing people in Kenya, but a vaccine and local drug production may help
Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Africa: R21 Anti-Malaria Vaccine Is a Game Changer - Scientist Who Helped Design It Reflects On 30 Years of Research, and What It Promises
[The Conversation Africa] Until three years ago nobody had developed a vaccine against any parasitic disease. Now there are two against malaria: the RTS,S and the R21 vaccines. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Source Type: news
Liberia: Liberia Launches Anti-Malaria Vaccine for Children 5-18 Months Today
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia is taking a significant step forward in its fight against malaria with the official launch of an anti-malaria vaccine for children aged 5 to 18 months. The launch ceremony is scheduled to take place tomorrow, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Cestos City, Rivercess County. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Liberia Malaria West Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Two New Malaria Vaccines Are Being Rolled Out Across Africa - How They Work and What They Promise
[The Conversation Africa] Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, five million more than in 2021. Africa suffers more than any other region from malaria, with 94% of cases and 95% of deaths worldwide. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 23, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Source Type: news
Southern Africa: Southern Africa Battles Deadly Cholera Outbreak
[DW] Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are at the epicenter of the deadliest cholera outbreak in southern Africa in at least a decade. The global stockpile of vaccines to limit the disease's spread has run dry. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 17, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria Southern Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Source Type: news
India's Serum looks beyond COVID with new vaccines for malaria, dengue
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Source: Reuters: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
India ’s Serum looks beyond COVID-19 with new vaccines for malaria, dengue
The CEO of the world’s biggest vaccine maker, Serum Institute of India, said the company has bolstered its manufacturing ahead of launches over the next few years of shots against diseases like malaria and dengue by repurposing facilities used to make COVID-19 immunizations. With COVID…#adarpoonawalla #serum #covishield #africa #indonesia #thailand #argentina #brazil #indianimmunologicals (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
‘I’m never going to be Tony’: Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor, vows a new direction at NIAID
When Jeanne Marrazzo started her residency at the Yale New Haven Hospital in 1988, the world was a very different place. Marrazzo provided care for dying AIDS patients—mainly gay men and intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. “Stigma was alive and well and thriving, and in fact, really, really ugly at the time,” Marrazzo told an audience of young scientists on 3 March in Denver, just before the start of an HIV/AIDS conference. “You really sometimes had to work hard to get your patients what you needed. That made me interested in political and scientific advocacy and activism very early on.”
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Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone—
Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Uganda Sees Health Workforce Gains; Increases in Family Planning and Safe Deliveries at End of USAID Project
cbalesFebruary 19, 2024February 19, 2024Between 2017 and 2023, Uganda strengthened its health workforce and systems, improved health services, and championed locally led development in collaboration with IntraHealth ’sRegional Health Integration to Enhance Services in Eastern Uganda (RHITES-E) Activity.Led by IntraHealth in partnership with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), Malaria Consortium, and Medic, the USAID-funded project worked closely with the government at the national and local levels to expand access to high-quality health services. RHITES-E also sup...
Source: IntraHealth International - February 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Source Type: news
Odisha's first vaccine manufacturing plant to start production by May
According to the Odisha chief minister's office, the plant, at full capacity, will be the biggest vaccine-producing plant in the country. It is expected to produce over 15 vaccines for various diseases, including cholera and malaria. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - February 18, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New Malaria Vaccine Proven Effective in Phase 3 Study New Malaria Vaccine Proven Effective in Phase 3 Study
The vaccine protected children under the age of 1.5 years against infection with an efficacy of 68%-75%.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - February 12, 2024 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Nearly 10 000 Children Vaccinated As Malaria Vaccine Rollout in Africa Expands
[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- Nearly 10 000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have now received the RTS,S malaria vaccine since being introduced this year. A wider malaria vaccine rollout is underway this year in several African countries, with Cameroon being the first outside the malaria vaccine pilot programme to do so. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 10, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Burkina Faso Cameroon Central Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Malaria West Africa Source Type: news
Proven Vector Control Interventions Needed to Stem Malaria Infections in Africa
Rwanda is using drone technology as an effective and innovative way of eradicating malaria in breeding sites. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPSBy Aimable TwahirwaKIGALI, Feb 8 2024 (IPS) Experts recommend that the current prevention of malaria in highly endemic countries in Africa should integrate “locally appropriate” control measures to cope with the highest burden of mosquito-borne disease on the continent.
The latest 2023 World Malaria Report shows that the life-threatening disease remains a significant public health challenge, with both malaria incidence and mortality higher now than they were before the start...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - February 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aimable Twahirwa Tags: Africa Climate Action Climate Change Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Malaria Source Type: news
