April 26
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Battling Malaria Without Drugs or Knowledge
allAfrica
The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year – more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. Read more »
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World Malaria Day - Malaria Costs Nigeria Billions of Naira Each Year. What Does It Cost a Nigerian?
Daily Trust
Idris Omale makes his living, as a barber at a barbing salon in Mararaba, Nasarawa State. He doesn't own the salon where he's been working since being deported from Libya last... Read more »
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Africa - Malaria - Keeping a Crafty Killer On the Run [analysis]
Premium Times
Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the... Read more »
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Smart Science in the Fight Against Malaria
IRIN
Malaria continues to be one of the world's deadliest diseases, infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000 - mostly African - children annually, according... Read more »
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Malaria - the Ongoing Fight Against an Old, Adaptive Foe
ThinkAfricaPress
Why has malaria proven so hard to beat? Read more »
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KR120 Million Set Aside for Malaria Fight
Times of Zambia
THE Zambian Government has provided KR120 million for malaria control programmes this year, Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has said. Read more »
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WHO Launches Emergency Response to Antimalarial Drug Resistance [press release]
WHO
On World Malaria Day, 25 April, WHO recognizes significant accomplishments in preventing and controlling malaria, including in high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but... Read more »
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With Malaria Breakthrough in Sight, UN Officials Urge Greater Funding to Finish the Job
UN News
With the globally agreed target of reversing the incidence rate of malaria by 2015 now in sight, top United Nations officials today urged the international community to stay... Read more »
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Mortality Rate in Connection With Malaria Stands At Zero in the Central Region - Ministry
Shabait
The Ministry of Health indicated that the mortality rate in connection with malaria presently stands at zero in the Central region. It made the statement in connection with the... Read more »
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UN Welcomes Renewed Push to Fight Malaria
UNDP
Tremendous progress to eliminate malaria has been made over the past decade, including a global reduction in malaria deaths of more than 25 percent, yet per year the disease still... Read more »
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Child Malaria Deaths Dropping, but Fight Against Disease Goes On
State Department
Early childhood deaths due to malaria are in rapid decline, eight years after a U.S. campaign against the disease began in 15 high-risk countries. Figures from the President's... Read more »
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S. Sudan Says Its Winning Malaria Fight
Sudan Tribune
South Sudan joined in global commemorations on Wednesday marking World Malaria Day, with the government saying it was confident of eradicating the killer disease. Read more »
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Times of Zambia
ZAMBIA and Zimbabwe have launched a cross-border malaria initiative aimed at eliminating the disease among communities on border areas on the banks of Zambezi River. Read more »
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New Feature On Global Fund Website [analysis]
GFO
On World Malaria Day, 25 April, the Global Fund launched a web special called "A Community Rises." Read more »
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Nigeria - Battling Malaria Without Drugs or Knowledge [analysis]
Premium Times
The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year - more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. Read more »
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Foundation Distributes Mosquito Nets in Bwari
Daily Trust
As part of 2013 world Malaria Day celebrations, a charity organisation, Jumai Aduda Foundation yesterday donated about 400 insecticide-treated mosquito nets to three communities in... Read more »
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NOA, UN Agency Task Nigerians On FOIA...As Osun Spends N200 Million On Malaria in Three Months
Daily Trust
The Osun State government yesterday said 41,416 cases of malaria were recorded in the state in the first quarter of this year and that the state government spent over N200 million... Read more »
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WHO Urges More Funding for Malaria
Daily Trust
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says international funding for malaria programmes have stagnated and slowed down progress against the disease while emerging resistance to drugs... Read more »
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Niger Spends N155.2 Million On Campaign Against Malaria
Daily Trust
Niger State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ibrahim Sule, said yesterday that the state government, in the past three years spent N155.2 million on Roll Back Malaria campaign in the... Read more »
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Most Malaria Programmes Are Donor Funded - NMCP Boss [interview]
Daily Trust
With malaria costing Nigeria some N480 billion annually in treatment and prevention, the resources that have gone into malaria control will be eroded if Nigeria cannot build local... Read more »
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Daily Trust
Malaria costs Nigeria billions of naira each year. What does it cost a Nigerian? Read more »
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World Malaria Day - UN Calls for More Efforts to Curb Deaths
Vanguard
The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, yesterday, said about 116 million people from four African countries, including Nigeria and four other countries were currently... Read more »
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Malaria - Nigeria, Four Others Account for 47 Percent World Cases
Vanguard
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chuckwu, on Thursday in Addis Ababa said Nigeria and four other African countries accounted for 47 per cent of the global malaria cases. The... Read more »
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Daily Trust
Malaria kills one in 10 women and 300 children every year. What are the chances of bringing malaria under control? Read more »
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World Malaria Day - " Malaria Can Be Defeated"
Vanguard
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Thursday, said new advances in science and implementation have given the global community the opportunity to control malaria... Read more »
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