Africa: Infectious Diseases Fester in Wake of Drought, War - UN Report
[Reporter] A UN agency signals a worrying uptick in the spread of infectious diseases as "successive shocks" expose thousands of people across the country to measles, cholera, and malaria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 18, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Agribusiness Economy, Business and Finance Climate Conflict, Peace and Security East Africa Environment Ethiopia External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news

Kent Campbell, Pivotal Figure in the Fight Against Malaria, Dies at 80
Among his accomplishments in a four-decade career in public health, he helped pioneer programs providing bed nets in Africa. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael S. Rosenwald Tags: Campbell, Kent (1944-2024) Malaria Medicine and Health Disease Rates Protective Clothing and Gear Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Gates, Bill and Melinda, Foundation United Nations Children ' s Fund Deaths (Obituari 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.” At th...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 8, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Africa: Africa Accounts for 95 Percent of Malaria Deaths Globally - WHO
[Premium Times] According to the WHO, the African region is home to 11 countries that carry approximately 70 per cent of the global burden of malaria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 8, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

Africa: African Health Ministers Commit to End Malaria Deaths
[WHO-AFRO] Yaoundé -- Ministers of Health from African countries with the highest burden of malaria committed today to accelerated action to end deaths from the disease. They pledged to sustainably and equitably address the threat of malaria in the African region, which accounts for 95% of malaria deaths globally. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 7, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Malaria Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Regional Military Leaders Meet in Eastern DRC to Coordinate Strategy Against M23 Rebels
[Independent (Kampala)] Kinshasa, DRC -- Stability hangs in the balance in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where military leaders from five regional countries have been meeting for days to devise a coordinated military strategy to end hostilities that risk escalating into a regional conflict. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 4, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Arms and Military Affairs Burundi Central Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Congo-Kinshasa East Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution South Africa Southern Africa Tanzania Source Type: news

Africa: Remembering the Legacy of Malaria-Fighting Trailblazer Kent Campbell
[allAfrica] Carlos 'Kent' Campbell, a respected public health physician and global health champion who died on February 20, 2024, is being celebrated by colleagues and coworkers for his pivotal role in fight to eliminate malaria in Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 3, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine Malaria United States, Canada and Africa Source Type: news

Climbing Malaria Cases Are Tied to A Tool Used to Prevent the Disease
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 29, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News 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

The World Can ’t Abandon the Fight Against Malaria
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Papua New Guinea Was Headed Towards a Malaria-Free Future. Until It Wasn ’t
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Source: Reuters: Health - February 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Left's Assault on Language Is an Assault on Freedom
George Orwell wrote, “The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” More colorfully and in a similar vein, it has been said that blurry words carry deplorable thinking the way mosquitoes carry malaria. It behooves us all to pay attention when people use words…#georgeorwell #eastgermany #russian #worldwarii #pcr #harvard #blacklivesmatter #departmentofjustice #democraticparty #hillaryclinton (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 19, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News 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