Nigeria: Active Citizenship for Health Improving Malaria Prevention and Treatment Awareness
[Nigeria Health Watch] The Malaria vaccine is considered to be one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. However, in spite of this breakthrough, the battle against malaria is far from over. In the 2021 World Malaria report, Nigeria is still considered one of the 11 highest-burden countries. About 96% of malaria deaths globally were in 29 countries. The 11 highest-burden countries account for 70% of the global estimated case burden and 71% of global estimated deaths. Nigeria accounts for the highest malaria deaths at (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 12, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
West Africa: ECOWAS Intensifies Efforts at Eliminating Malaria
[Ghanaian Times] A three-day meeting of members of Parliament drawn from ECOWAS member states to champion efforts at eliminating malaria on the sub-region has opened in Accra yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 4, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Letter to Malaria Partners (March 2022)
[WHO] Dear friends and partners, (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 4, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Africa's Rice-Farming Villages More Prone to Malaria #AfricaClimateCrisis
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Malaria has become more common in African villages with irrigated rice fields in the last 20 years, highlighting the need for improved cultivation methods to keep mosquito numbers low, a study suggests. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - April 1, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Bed Net That 'Grounds' Mosquitoes Cuts Malaria Cases
[SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- An innovative bed net that immobilises mosquitoes by making them unable to move or fly, has the potential to significantly reduce malaria infection in children, according to trial data analysis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 31, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: The AU Pledges to End Neglected Tropical Diseases By 2030 Bold Commitment and Leadership in Advance of the Kigali Summit On Malaria and NTDs
[African Union] Today, the African Union (AU) and Uniting to Combat NTDs signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the AU Member States by 2030. The agreement highlights the African Union's commitment to strengthen collaboration and cooperation among stakeholders to control and eliminate twenty NTDs, achieving the vision outlined by the "Agenda 2063 'The Africa We Want'" framework. This MoU shows bold leadership and the highest level of commitment to NTDs by the African Un (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 31, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Malaria Day - Rhodes-Vivour to Provide Health Cover for 1m Lagosians
[Leadership] Lagos politician, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, popularly known as GRV has partnered with WellaHealth to provide micro health cover for one million Lagosians in commemoration of World Malaria Day coming up on April 25, 2022. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 11, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Some Malaria Parasites Are Evading Detection Tests, Causing an Urgent Threat to Public Health
[The Conversation Africa] Malaria is an old disease. Yet it continues to have devastating impacts on poor people, especially in Africa. To fight the disease, countries primarily use insecticide-treated bed nets to control the mosquitoes that transmit malaria parasites, or medicines to treat malaria patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 8, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: Using Bed Nets in Early Life 'Ups Survival Into Adulthood'
[SciDev.Net] Malawi -- Children who sleep more often under insecticide-treated bed nets have more than 40 per cent higher likelihood of surviving into adulthood than their counterparts who use bed nets less often, a study suggests. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - March 5, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Malawi: Religious Couple Get Two and Half Jail Term for Denying Children Access to Medication
[Nyasa Times] A deeply religious couple in Neno will have to spend two years and six in jail for denying their children access to medical care due to religious beliefs which led to the death of the children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 19, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Zambia: Kasenengwa Health Office Scales Up Malaria Fight
[Times of Zambia] WHILE the late delivery of farming inputs and poor rainfall patterns are usually the main challenges farmers face, the possibility of catching malaria is an added anxiety for Florence Sakala, a 47-year-old farmer of Kasenengwa District in the Eastern Province. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 15, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kenya: Curious Kids - What Would Happen If All the Mosquitoes in the World Disappeared?
[The Conversation Africa] Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - January 29, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Uganda: New Project to Boost Malaria Burden Reduction Gains in Uganda
[Malaria Consortium] To build on and boost gains made in Uganda's mission to eradicate malaria, Malaria Consortium is implementing a new project - Supporting Uganda's Malaria Reduction and Elimination Strategy (SUMRES) - over two years. The project will directly benefit close to three million people across 11 districts, including pregnant women and children under five years' old. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - January 26, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Africa: New Link Between Sickle Cell and Severe Malaria Found
[SciDev.Net] Lagos -- Malaria parasites may have adapted so that they can cause severe malaria in people with sickle cell disease, a study suggests. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - January 24, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gambia: Childfund Hands Over Mosquito Nets for Children, Pregnant Women
[The Point] ChildFund The Gambia last Friday handed over 16,000 LLIN mosquito bed nets to regional health directorates at a ceremony held at Sama Kairo Federation in Brikama. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - January 17, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
