Malaria News

Scientists gathered at the world's largest malaria conference are debating on Thursday the challenge of malaria drug and insecticide resistance and call on researchers and policymakers to act urgently to contain the problem.

A medical aid group says there are signs the international community is abandoning its support for an increase in AIDS treatment programs.

Experts on both sides of the Atlantic applaud President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the European Union Presidency, for establishing a transatlantic task force to address antibiotic resistance, an urgent and growing problem that threatens patient safety and public health worldwide.

In my column yesterday I previewed the case for a bold response to rising C02 levels that will be presented at the upcoming Munk Debate on climate change.

Antigenics, Inc. today indicated that GlaxoSmithKline's Phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial, containing Antigenics' QS-21 Stimulon adjuvant, has enrolled more than 5,000 children to date and is expected to involve up to 16,000 children.

A health school dedicated to tackling the world's killer diseases is to be launched.

Just three percent of malaria-infected children in Africa get World Health Organisation-recommended drugs.

The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa.

After 20 years of trials, scientists have announced they are on the threshold of discovering a malaria vaccine.

About a quarter million children could die of climate change and nearly 175 million children will be hit by disasters like floods, cyclones and droughts along with malnutrition and disease, a report released by an NGO said Wednesday.

Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference in Nairobi.

Burkina Faso is to supply its entire population with six million mosquito nets after research has shown many of the mosquitoes in the country have dev ...

About one in five children around the world dies from pneumonia - more than from measles, malaria and HIV combined.

Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs .

A pivotal efficacy trial of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.

'Pneumonia kills more children than measles, malaria and AIDS combined' By Amar Guriro KARACHI: Health experts of the Aga Khan University have said that pneumonia is one of the most lethal diseases in the world and it kills more children, under five years of age, as compared to other fatal diseases like measles, malaria and AIDS, even if all three ...

Nearly a million people die from malaria each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead often buy old drugs to which the malaria parasite has become resistant, researchers said on Monday.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Public Health ; Nutrition / Diet ; Tuberculosis Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST "Action always leads to reaction, a fundamental law of nature," write the authors of an introduction appearing in a Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes supplemental issue that focuses on global health systems.

World's largest malaria conference kicked off in Nairobi late Sunday with a call for substantial and sustained support for research to guide evidence-based policies and the development of new malaria tools, which together could save countless lives.