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Every time Fredros Okumu spends his free time in a mosquito infested field, the world moves a step towards finding the elusive long term cure for malaria.
THE AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) has launched a sh4b three year door-to-door HIV/AIDS and malaria campaign in Apac district. The programme aims at strengthening the healthcare system to assist those living with HIV.
Executive Director of Nigerian Inter-Faith Ation Assocation (NIFAA), Bishop Sunday Onuoha has said the fight against malaria menance was a holy obligation and a noble service to humanity.
Just three percent of malaria-infected children in Africa get World Health Organisation-recommended drugs. One expert has equated this to a death sentence for sick children.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it has transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision of more than 50 million long-lasting insecticidal nets in the next few months. Together, this will amount to a 2/3 increase of the number of bed nets in Africa through Global Fund supported programmes.
The official tasked with spearheading United Nations efforts against malaria has welcomed the decision of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to allocate more than $8 million in new funds to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
A TOTAL of 650 dozes of government anti-malaria tablets were yesterday impounded at a city health centre.
A New anti-malarial drug has been launched in Uganda. Artefan is a combination of Artemether and Lumefantine, with the same chemical composition as Coartem.
Billions of dollars have been spent on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) yet its potential for understanding cerebral malaria remains virtually untapped, say researchers.
At least 80 per cent of Kenyans living in malaria-prone areas will be protected from contracting the disease in the next four years, according to a new plan.
After 20 years of trials, scientists have announced they are on the threshold of discovering a malaria vaccine. Researchers warn that Africa may not be ready to make use of the vaccine should it be approved as expected within five years.
Tucked away in the corners of the news media sits a report that the US government will provide US$5 million in trucks and military equipment to Mali. The aim of this donation is to help the Malian military fight the group known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Last December, AQIM kidnapped two Canadian diplomats, who were released after four months. This is what they do these days: ...
One of Africa's toughest challenges -- malaria -- is finally getting the attention it deserves. For the past week in Nairobi, the world's leading malaria experts met at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference to review the latest strategies to fight the disease.
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.
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 statement made available to Leadership Correspondent in New York has said.
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has advised people planning to travel to the low altitude areas of the north eastern parts of the country to get a prescription for anti-malarial medicine.
On the first day of the scientific program at the world's largest malaria conference, researchers, public health officials and policymakers took a hard look at current malaria interventions and presented evidence on what more must be done to improve access to proven methods by the world's poorest people. New research released at MIM highlighted the need for coordinated action by the malaria ...
The world's largest malaria conference opened today 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. The 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference brings together 2,000 researchers, health workers, public health officials, policymakers and ...
Rwanda has been cited among the twelve sub-Saharan countries that will receive subsidized anti-Malaria drugs under the Affordable Medicines Facility Programme aimed at increasing accessibility to malaria treatment.
A malaria treatment derived from a locally-growing shrub is one of only a few herbal cures being presented at the ongoing international conference in Nairobi.
The ongoing international malaria conference in Nairobi is arguably one of the biggest such meetings to be held over a single disease in Africa.
African countries are not prepared to receive the malaria vaccine yet, a scientist said on Tuesday.
World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday $39 billion was required to tackle pneumonia in 68 "high burden" countries including Nigeria, where 20 per cent of children under the age of five years die annually.
NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) will today arraign two men before the Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly importing fake and adulterated anti-malaria drugs into the country.
CHARLES Ssali, an U-12 footballer, will represent Uganda at the launch of the 'United Against Malaria' campaign due in Ethiopia November 5-8.
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