Tanzania: Battle Against Malaria Gets Further Boost
[Daily News] In an effort to tackle the spreading of malaria disease, Barrick Bulyanhulu Gold Mine has launched a campaign to ensure zero threat remains a goal. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Tanzania Source Type: news
Africa: Antibiotic Resistance Causes More Deaths Than Malaria and HIV/Aids Combined
[The Conversation Africa] Each year antimicrobial resistance - the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them - claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this development, which thrives on inequality and poverty. Nadine Dreyer asked Tom Nyirenda, a research scientist with over 27 years' experience in infectious diseases, what health organisations on the continent are doing to fight this threat to medical progress. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 21, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine Malaria Source Type: news
Rwanda: Malaria Prevalent in Southern Province - Report
[New Times] The Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has shed light on the regions grappling with high occurrences of malaria, highlighting the Southern Province as the most prevalent to the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 19, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Central Africa East Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Rwanda Source Type: news
Tanzania: U.S. Strengthens Tanzania Anti-Malaria Laboratory Capacity
[Daily News] DAR ES SALAAM: THE US through its Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US President's Malaria Initiative, delivered equipment at the Muhimbili College of Health and Allied Sciences. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 17, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Tanzania Source Type: news
CRISPR Therapy Gets U.K. Approval, the First in the World
Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K.
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In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020.
The agency approved the treatment for patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who are 12 years old and over. Casgevy is made by Vertex ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MARIA CHENG / AP Tags: Uncategorized Drugs wire Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Death Toll From Malaria Outbreak in Western Oromia 'Significantly Higher' Than Reported Numbers - OPA
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Oromia Physicians Association (OPA), non-profit professional association, has dispatched groups of doctors to Western Oromia to provide emergency healthcare services to communities battling an active malaria outbreak. The association said that the situation in the West Wollega and Kellem Wollega zones is "much worse" than what has been reported. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Ethiopia Health and Medicine Malaria Source Type: news
Kenya: Kenya's Bold Step Towards a Malaria-Free Future - Unveiling the National LLINs Distribution Campaign
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has launched the National Long-Lasting Insecticidal Treated Nets (LLINs) Distribution Campaign that kicks off today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Malaria Source Type: news
Rwanda: Rwanda On Track to Achieve Zero Malaria in 2030
[New Times] Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has announced that it targets to achieve 'zero malaria' in 2023 following a significant decline in the infection-related cases, according to officials. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 16, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Central Africa East Africa Health and Medicine Malaria Rwanda Source Type: news
Outbreak of Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted Malaria Outbreak of Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted Malaria
This report documents the first cases of locally acquired mosquito-transmitted (autochthonous) Plasmodium vivax malaria in the United States since 2003.Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health & Prevention Journal Article Source Type: news
Africa: WHO Approves First African-Manufactured Malaria Drug
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- A leading Kenya-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, Universal Corporation Ltd (UCL), has become the first African manufacturer to gain WHO prequalification for their sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine + amodiaquine product. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 12, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa Economy, Business and Finance Company News East Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Kenya Malaria Manufacturing Source Type: news
Nigeria: Reps to Conduct Survey On Fake Malaria Drugs
[Daily Trust] The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control to conduct a baseline survey on fake anti-malaria medicines in the six geo-political zones of the country and report back within four weeks. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 10, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Legal and Judicial Affairs Malaria Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
New antifungal kills without toxic side effects
The antifungal Amphotericin B (AmB) is an old and effective drug—it saved many COVID-19 patients whose compromised immune systems failed to stop secondary fungal infections. But it sometimes causes life-threatening kidney damage. Now, after more than a decade of sleuthing into this toxicity, researchers have not only found an explanation, but used it and a robotic “chemist” to devise a powerful antifungal alternative without any obvious side effects in mice and human cells. And the strategy that led to the discovery of the compound, described today in
Nature
, may offer a route for detoxifying other antimic...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
South Africa: Over 7 400 Malaria Cases Recorded, 17% Locally Acquired
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded over 7 400 malaria cases between January and October this year, with only 17% of these having been locally acquired. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - November 8, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Peace Corps agrees to pay $750,000 to family of dead volunteer
A law firm says the Peace Corps has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a 24-year-old volunteer from Illinois who died in 2018 in East Africa after the agency’s doctors misdiagnosed a case of malaria (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Gauteng Health Intensifies Malaria Awareness Campaign
[Govt of SA] Gauteng Health intensifies malaria awareness campaign (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 6, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malaria South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
