Malaria News

With a promising new anti-malaria vaccine in its final stage of testing, researchers around the world are optimistic they are finally making progress toward ending the deadly disease.

Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services.

The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.

'Blot' On U.S. HIV/AIDS Leadership Removed   A "blot" on U.S. HIV/AIDS leadership "ended last month when President [Barack] Obama lifted the prohibition " that kept HIV-positive foreigners from visiting the U.S. or seeking residency, according to a Washington Post editorial .

Human red blood cells, in which membrane proteins are targeted and labeled with quantum dots, reveal the clustering behavior of the proteins.

Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality - from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.

Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows.

The Global Fund has agreed to provide Myanmar with 110 million dollars to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, after pulling out of the country four years ago, media reports said Sunday.

Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school a ' but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.

Orissa Wednesday launched a special programme to fight malaria that kills around 250 people in the state every year, health department officials said.

A 1.5 million package of funding to improve road safety in some of the world's poorest countries has been announced by the UK Government.

Vaccines, once relegated to back burner status at pharmaceutical companies, are starting to become big business for ailing drugmakers.

Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.

NEW YORK & GENEVA - Pfizer Inc and Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative have signed an agreement that is designed to facilitate advancements in the battle against human African trypanosomiasis , visceral leishmaniasis and Chagas disease, which afflict vulnerable populations in the developing world.

A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease.

The recent failure of an HIV vaccine was probably caused by the immune system reacting to the virus 'shell' used to transmit the therapy around the body, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections.

The Sterile Insect Technique , the release of sexually sterile male insects to wipe out a pest population, is one suggested solution to the problem of malaria in Africa.

The failure of an experimental AIDS vaccine trial two years ago may have been caused by the common cold virus.

Monday, 16 November 2009, 2:29 pm Press Release: International Aids Society Global Fund Extension of HIV Prevention Programmes for People at High Risk for HIV in Russia Will Save Thousands of Young Lives International AIDS Society and International Harm Reduction Association Call on Russian Government to Simultaneously Expand Access to HIV ...