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Africa: New Financing Tool Aims to Increase Access to Lifesaving Mosquito Nets
UN News, 22 August 2023
More people in some of the world's poorest communities will have access to quality health products such as top of the line mosquito nets, thanks to a new financial mechanism… Read more »
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Africa: World Mosquito Day - Goodbye Malaria Takes the Fight to the Fearsome Mosquito
Goodbye Malaria, 22 August 2023
It is an oft-repeated fact that the deadliest creature on earth is the mosquito, a terrifying transmitter of the malaria parasite. According to the most recent World Malaria Report… Read more »
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Africa: Experts Task African Govts, Media On Malaria Elimination
Vanguard, 22 August 2023
Experts under the auspices of the African Media and Malaria Research Network, AMMREN, African leaders have been tasked with being more committed to investing in malaria elimination… Read more »
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Mozambique: - Malaria Kills At Least 200 in First Half of 2023
AIM, 21 August 2023
At least 210 people died of malaria in Mozambique in the first six months of this year. Read more »
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Africa: How Genetically Modifying Mosquitoes Could Strengthen the World's War On Malaria
The Conversation Africa, 18 August 2023
It's been 126 years since British medical doctor Sir Ronald Ross discovered that mosquitoes in the Anopheles family are primarily responsible for transmitting malaria parasites… Read more »
Financing Tool Aims to Boost Access to Lifesaving Mosquito Nets
More people in some of the world's poorest communities will have access to quality health products such as mosquito nets, thanks to a new financial mechanism.
The so-called Revolving Facility is an initiative of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a UN partner that invests U.S.$4 billion annually to stamp out these deadly diseases and strengthen health systems in more than 100 countries.
Insecticide-treated nets are a key tool in the fight against malaria, which is spread by some types of mosquitos. Nets treated with pyrethroid insecticide have been widely used since the 1990s and underpinned global achievements in malaria control to date.
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Malaria-carrying mosquitoes will, and are already moving to new habitats as the earth warms up due to climate change. They are expected to breed faster and bite more often. As a ... Read more »
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The 194 Member States of the World Health Organization are currently negotiating the first pandemic accord. Acknowledging that the world learned many hard lessons from the Covid-19 ... Read more »
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Twelve African countries will receive 18 million doses of the first-ever vaccine against malaria over the next two years, care of global vaccine alliance GAVI, the World Heal Read more »
