Despite some progress, Africa accounted for 91 percent of malaria deaths in 2010, with being children under five being most vulnerable, Read more »
Pelly Malebes research on helping plants withstand drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South Africas drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop ... Read more »
First results from a large-scale Phase III trial of RTS,S, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, show the malaria vaccine candidate to provide young African ... Read more »
A new report released by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership just prior to the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Malaria Forum in Seattle, reveals that an increasing ... Read more »
Indoor spraying with the insecticide bendiocarb has dramatically decreased malaria transmission in many parts of Benin - new evidence that insecticides remain a potent weapon for ... Read more »
A drug that is regularly given to people in Africa to prevent river blindness appears also to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria, scientists have discovered. Read more »
A new analysis of progress in the global fight against malaria finds a four-fold increase in annual funding for malaria research and development in just 16 yearsincreasing from ... Read more »
Countries and partners are making commendable efforts to accelerate and sustain progress in malaria prevention and control in the region, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official ... Read more »
Plants that have long been relied on for the treatment of malaria are at risk of extinction. According to research released in anticipation of World Malaria Day, plants that have ... Read more »
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended a change in malaria treatment that could save nearly 200,000 lives a year, but health activists are bracing for what could be ... Read more »
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