August 02
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Kemri, CDC Sh500 Million for Malaria
The Star
The Kenya Medical Research Institute and Centre for Disease Control, has come up with a plan that will reduce malaria in the country. The study is funded by CDC and the US... Read more »
August 01
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Malaria Campaigns Record Success
Cameroon Tribune
Prevalence reportedly dropped from 42 per cent to about 30 per cent in communities and 25 per cent in enterprises. Read more »
July 31
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Challenges Of Malaria In Central Africa
Cameroon Tribune
The annual review meeting of Roll Back Malaria that started in Douala on Monday examined ways to overcome the challenges. Read more »
July 30
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Little Mtiki's Fight Against Malaria [press release]
IFRC
Mtiki is 13 months old. For most of his life he has been sick, in and out of hospitals, health care clinics, and doctors' offices. Mtiki was born in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in... Read more »
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Red Cross Joins UN Foundation to Fight Malaria in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp [press release]
IFRC
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), together with the Tanzania Red Cross National Society and the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But... Read more »
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The Point
Floods in and around the country these days are a clear indication that people should be prepared to fight against the killer-disease, Malaria, which becomes most prevalent during... Read more »
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Not Enough Invested in Malaria Control - Dr Nnenna Ezeigwe [interview]
Vanguard
Highpoint of the Africa Union Abuja +12 Special Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, ATM, held recently at the International conference Centre, ICC, Abuja, was the launch... Read more »
July 27
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Kagera Can Go Zanzibar Way On How to Effectively Fight Malaria
Daily News
ZANZIBAR'S switched to ACTs in 2004, after growing resistance to chloroquine, previously the most commonly used drug. At Wete District hospital, Sheikh Makame, recalls that once he... Read more »
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Sh25 Billion Lost to Malaria Fight
New Vision
Dr. Anthony Mbonye, a commissioner for health services in the health ministry, said in a bid to control the high mortality rate due to malaria, a lot of money was spent on... Read more »
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Ngara Makes Headway in the Fight Against Malaria
Daily News
AUTHORITIES in Kagera Region were recently alarmed following an outbreak in 29 villages in Muleba District which had already been covered under the Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)... Read more »
July 26
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Dar to Scale Up DDT Use in Malaria Control
Daily News
The Deputy Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Seif Seleman Rashid, told the 'Daily News' that Tanzania would apply DDT in malaria control in line with last week's... Read more »
July 25
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Furore As Malaria Continues to Wreak Havoc in Kagera
Daily News
LUCY Mutashubya considers herself unlucky. During the last week of May, the mother of two lost her two and a half years old daughter, Kokushubira. Read more »
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Dar to Announce Stand On DDT in Malaria Control
Daily News
THE government will soon announce its position on the use of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) in fighting malaria as proposed at a recent summit in Nigeria. Read more »
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U.S $119, 000 Set Aside for New Pre-Referral Treatment for Severe Malaria
Malawi News Agency
College of Medicine through the Malaria Alert Centre and Save the Children Malawi has announced the pilot study on new way of management of fever at community level labeling it as... Read more »
July 23
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Pregnant Women Not Gaining Access to Malaria Prevention - Study
VOA
Malaria infections, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, are responsible for the deaths of some 200,000 newborns and 10,000 new mothers each year. The parasitic illness can also cause... Read more »
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Tanzanian Red Cross to Distribute 68,000 Mosquito Nets to Refugees
Sabahi
The Tanzania Red Cross Society (TRCS) will distribute 68,000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to refugees living in the Nyarugusu camp in the Kigoma region, Tanzania's The Citizen... Read more »
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HIV/Aids, TB, Malaria - Beyond Abuja+12 Summit
Leadership
WINIFRED OGBEBO x-rays the salient issues at the African Union special summit held last week in Abuja. Twelve years after the Abuja declaration in 2001, African leaders and heads... Read more »
July 22
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Rwanda to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases
Focus
At the end of a two-day meeting on non-communicable diseases in Kigali last week, participants worried they had made too big a promise. Read more »
July 21
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Africans Misdiagnosed With Malaria, Says Report
Daily News
A STUDY involving New Zealand's Otago University has found that a number of African people were misdiagnosed with malaria, then treated for it, after being hospitalised with... Read more »
July 17
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Kenya, Nigeria Sign Three Bilateral Agreements
Sabahi
Kenyan Secretary of Foreign Affairs Amina Mohamed and her Nigerian counterpart Olugbenga Ashiru signed three bilateral agreements in Abuja Tuesday (July 16th) to strengthen ties... Read more »
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African Countries Adopt Controversial Deadly Chemical, DDT, for Malaria Treatment
Premium Times
"Exposure to DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning... " Read more »
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MDGs 2015 - Continent Can't Meet Target On HIV, TB, Malaria
Daily Trust
African leaders have admitted that they cannot meet the 2015 target set by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for a pushback against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Read more »
July 16
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AU Defends Use of Controversial Chemical in Malaria Control
Daily Trust
Health ministers meeting in Abuja are defending the use of the chemical, dichlorodiphenyltrichlorethane, or DDT, as an insecticide to control mosquitoes on the continent. Read more »
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Action Plan to Eliminate HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, Malaria in Africa Adopted
ERTA
The African Union Special Summit of Heads of State and Government, held under the theme, "Ownership, Accountability and Sustainability of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria... Read more »
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Sierra Leone Government
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria pose serious threats to the socio-economic development of Africa. Read more »
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