World Malaria Day 2024 - 'Accelerating the Fight Against Malaria for a More Equitable World'
WHO
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Malaria On the Rise With Healthcare Out of Reach in Madagascar [press release]
MSF
Madagascar is one of the countries most affected by malaria. According to the Ministry of Public Health, the reported number of malaria cases in 2023 exceeded the national epidemic… Read more »
Liberia Launches Anti-Malaria Vaccine for Children 5-18 Months Today
FrontPageAfrica
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… Read more »
R21 Anti-Malaria Vaccine Is a Game Changer - Scientist Who Helped Design It Reflects On 30 Years of Research, and What It Promises [analysis]
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. Read more »
Achieving a Malaria-Free Rwanda By 2030 Is Possible
New Times
Latest data from Rwanda Biomedical Centre, as reported by The New Times in its April 24 edition, indicates that malaria cases in the country dropped by a staggering 88% in 2023. Read more »
Major Step in Malaria Prevention As Three West African Countries Roll Out Vaccine [press release]
GAVI
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… Read more »
Two New Malaria Vaccines Are Being Rolled Out Across Africa - How They Work and What They Promise [analysis]
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… Read more »
World Malaria Day 2024: 'Accelerating The Fight Against Malaria for a More Equitable World'
WHO
On this World Malaria Day 2024, we unite under the theme "Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world." This theme, which is in sync with this year’s… Read more »
How Can We Achieve a Malaria-Free World?
Malaria Consortium
This blog was written collaboratively by Shana Warren, Associate Director of Path-to-Scale Research & Research Scientist at Innovations for Poverty Action, a research and… Read more »
WHO Global Malaria Programme Launches New Operational Strategy [press release]
WHO
Ahead of World Malaria Day, the WHO Global Malaria Programme published a new operational strategy outlining its priorities and key activities up to 2030 to help change the… Read more »
Speaker Koffa to Deliver Keynote Address At World Malaria Day Celebration Today
FrontPageAfrica
Today, Liberia will join the rest of the world in commemoration of the World Malaria Day, under the theme: Health equity, Gender, and Human Rights." The national slogan is: "Sleep… Read more »
Seven Deaths Are From Malaria, Typhoid Not Strange Disease - Kano Govt
Leadership
Kano State Ministry of Health has dispelled reports of an outbreak of a strange illness in Gundutse village of Kura local government area. Read more »
How to Stop Five-Year-Olds from Dying Every Minute this World Malaria Day [press release]
Goodbye Malaria
Goodbye Malaria calls for government, business, and non-profit sectors to work together to eliminate malaria in southern Africa by 2030. Read more »
Malaria Cases Down By 88% in 2023
New Times
Malaria cases in Rwanda have dropped by 88 per cent as of 2023, according Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC). Read more »
From Grassroots to Global - Lessons From the Zero Malaria Starts With Me Campaign 2014-2024 [press release]
RBM
Friday, 25th April 2014 remains a special day in Speak Up Africa's institutional memory: the day that Zero Malaria Starts with Me was brought into the world. Government officials,… Read more »