Matt McGrath | 05 Apr 2024 | 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 2024 | 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.
Tanya Tillett | 01 Apr 2024 | Environmental Health Perspectives
Although insecticides have helped lower worldwide rates of infectious disease, the use of these chemicals must be monitored and controlled to avoid pest resistance and minimize associated risks to human health and the environment.
None | 28 Mar 2024 | NYU Development Research Institute
US World Bank nominee under fire over book By Robin Harding, Financial Times: Jim Yong Kim, the US nominee to head the World Bank, is coming under fire over a book he co-authored that criticises "neoliberalism" and "corporate-led economic growth", arguing that in many cases they had made the middle classes and the poor in developing countries worse off.
Janice Roberts | 26 Mar 2024 | Business Live
Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA are injecting new resources, innovation and momentum into efforts to improve health in the world's poorest countries, according to a report by Global Health Strategies initiatives, released in New Delhi on Monday.
None | 23 Mar 2024 | BBC News
President Obama has nominated Korean-born US academic Jim Yong Kim to be the next president of the World Bank. The nomination of the Dartmouth College president, a doctor and former director of the HIV/Aids department at the World Health Organization, is a surprise.
Bryan Cohen | 22 Mar 2024 | Vaccine News Daily
According to an official with the Zanzibar Malaria Control Program, the Zanzibar government has successfully reduced malaria infections down to one to two cases per week. Abdullah Ally made the statement when discussing the Malaria Control
Campaign in Zanzibar, which aims to reduce the transmission of malaria
to zero.
Priya Shetty | 22 Mar 2024 | SciDev.Net
Many resource-poor countries, especially those in Africa, have always depended on other countries for their drug supplies, either through foreign aid or buying cheap generics from the pharmacy of the developing world — India.
Gatonye Gathura | 14 Mar 2024 | Daily Nation
The sale of expired medicines and theft of drugs from public hospitals have hampered a government programme to supply subsidised malaria treatment in the country. A spot-check by the Nation in the city centre and two residential areas of Nairobi in the past two days showed the medicines subsidised through the Global Fund have largely been out of stock since the beginning of the year.
None | 12 Mar 2024 | IRIN News
Lack of adherence to the full course of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) treatment is threatening the effectiveness of the drug recommended as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in countries where the disease is endemic, according to recent studies.