None | 15 May 2012 | World Health Organization
The Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors (GPIRM) is a call to action. Through this document, WHO and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership call on
governments of malaria-endemic countries, donor organizations, UN
agencies, as well as research and industry partners, to implement a
five-pillar strategy to tackle the growing threat of insecticide
resistance and to facilitate the development of innovative vector
control tools and strategies.
Betsy McKay | 09 May 2012 | Wall Street Journal Europe
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has boosted its coffers and will resume funding new grants following the launch of a management overhaul prompted by a slowdown in donations and disclosures of some misused grant money.
Simeon Bennett | 26 Apr 2012 | Bloomberg
Drug-resistant malaria may be emerging in Africa, according to a study that suggests the most powerful drugs against the disease are losing potency on the continent most affected by it.
Sarah Boseley | 25 Apr 2012 | guardian.co.uk
On World Malaria Day, with Médecins sans Frontières reporting a crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has seen an upsurge of cases of the disease overwhelm the available response (see MSF's account here), and general concern about the rise of resistance to antimalarials and the shrinking of resources, here is a bit of hopeful news.
Victoria Fan | 18 Apr 2012 | Center for Global Development
A few weeks ago, the Independent Evaluation of the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) Phase 1 evaluation was released by the Global Fund on its website.
Orton Kiishweko | 14 Apr 2012 | Daily News (Tanzania)
The annual Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) has cut malaria cases in two regions by over 50 per cent in the last four years, latest reports show. The regions where IRS is taking place every year are Kagera, Mwanza and Mara.
None | 09 Apr 2012 | BBC News
Emmanuel Katongole's pioneering efforts in Uganda have turned him into successful businessman making money from producing affordable life-saving drugs for the treatment of HIV and malaria. Fifteen years ago, he started a pharmaceutical company at the time the government was beginning to concentrate more on health care and less on the direct supply of medicines.
Charles Kenny | 09 Apr 2012 | Foreign Policy
The authors of a recent study published in the journal Nature conclude
that the forecasted future effects of rising temperatures on malaria
"are at least one order of magnitude smaller than the changes observed
since about 1900 and about two orders of magnitude smaller than those
that can be achieved by the effective scale-up of key control measures."
Matt McGrath | 05 Apr 2012 | BBC News
Scientists have found new evidence that resistance to the front-line treatments for malaria is increasing. They have confirmed that resistant strains of the malaria parasite on the border between Thailand and Burma, 500 miles (800km) away from previous sites.
Michael Gerson | 05 Apr 2012 | Washington Post
In a global anti-malaria movement I saw begin in Oval Office meetings and international summits, Mongu is at the end of a very long road. Located in western Zambia, about 75 miles from the Angolan border, the town is not close to anywhere. The rivers of the region are more like swamps filling a flood plain,
their courses hidden by tall grasses — from the air, wide, serpentine
bands of lime green.