Countries in the Sadc region will submit a joint proposal seeking funding for malaria interventions to the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria Round Eight.

Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation.

Kenya is one of the countries that have the best knowledge about malaria in the world today. Paradoxically, it is also one of the countries with the highest number of people who succumb to the disease.

Some 35% of antimalarial drugs sold in six major African cities failed basic quality tests according to a study published today in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed open-access journal.

Namibia has seen major achievements in rolling back malaria in Africa with a record 181 morbidity and mortality rate compared to the 1 200 target set out in the Abuja declaration.

Statistics relating to malaria never cease to amaze the world. During the celebration of this year's World Malaria Day, the data were no less astounding: Malaria kills two million people each year; 90 per cent of the deaths occur in Africa. One in 10 pregnant women dies from malaria. Closer home, the disease affects about 110 million (out of 140 million) Nigerians who spend more than N800 billion ...

A vaccine against malaria, something that a few years ago we could only dream about, could be a reality in the next five years.

As the use of DDT to fight mosquitoes spreading Malaria in Uganda begins to take shape, it is emerging that men born to mothers exposed to lingering amounts of the pesticide might have an increased risk of getting testicular cancer.

For the last 3000 years malaria has proven to be one of the most elusive diseases. It has adapted and survived almost anything that mankind has invented to destroy it.

The decision by the Government of Uganda to use DDT in combating Malaria is imprudent because it will cause irreversible damage to both human helath and the environment. DDT will also cost Uganda's economy dearly and therefore should be halted. On April 25 2008, Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Malaria Day.

CHINA has donated anti-malarial drugs worth $400,000 (about sh714m) to the health ministry.

Dr Kabir Ibrahim, Project Manager, World Bank assisted Malaria Control and Booster Project (MCBP), in Jigawa State, has said the state government, in collaboration with national and international agencies, is determined to win the battle against malaria in the next two years.

In the words of Samuelson, R.J., a learned South African judge in the apartheid era, the Third World (a.k.a. developing countries) "has been shattered forever, a casualty of the end of the Cold War . . . Discipline will be imposed not only by stingy taxpayers in richer countries but also by multinational companies that control large private investment."

The Ghana Health Service is to institute a mechanism, known as Indoor Residual Spraying, in the Northern Region, to get rid of female anopheles mosquitoes, which are the main cause of malaria.

ZIMBABWE has taken over from Zambia the Sadc roll back malaria campaign programme code named the Zambezi River of Life Expedition aimed at intensifying the fight against the disease.

Health experts say the majority of malaria cases in Mali are misdiagnosed, which causes resistance to malaria drugs and leaves other illnesses untreated.

The Government of Japan announces today its decision to award the inaugural Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prizes to Brian Greenwood and Miriam K. Were.

Deaths caused by malaria in Singida district have decreased significantly, the District Council's malaria control coordinator has said.

An African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN), a network of African journalists, and scientists working together to eradicate malaria in Africa, has made giant moves to pursue its goals, of achieving malaria-free communities in the region.

ZAMBIA and Russia yesterday signed a US$7 million grant for the malaria national support programme.

Canadian scientists working with Ugandans at Makerere University have reported that their novel drug candidates to treat malaria have demonstrated good safety in their first toxicity tests in animals.

The top brass of the Africa Media Malaria Research Network (AMMREN) led by Pa Modou Faal on Monday called on Alhagie Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, former President of The Gambia, who is also AMMREN's national patron at his residence in Fajara.

Total Petroleum Ghana Limited, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has launched a series of activities to create public awareness about malaria prevention.

African research scientists are close to discovering "a safe and effective malaria vaccine," according to a WHO consultant in Accra.

A GRAND expedition across Africa by road to raise awareness in the fight against malaria has reached Mombasa.