Malaria

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The Rivers State Government says it is spending over two billion naira annually to fight malaria. (AllAfrica)

A decline in the incidence of malaria in Swaziland is being attributed to a devastating drought in the country's malaria belt. (AllAfrica)

The Regional health management team of Central River Region (CRR) today, Wednesday November 18, held a one day sensitisation for care givers, teachers, opinion leaders, women's groups, and youth groups on Malaria prevention and control, signs and symptoms, early ANC clinic attendance, use of treated bed nets and counselling at Ballangharr village in the Lower Saloum district CRR North. (AllAfrica)

The New Vision of November 25 mentioned that the Government plans to distribute Insectcide treated nets worth sh17m to fight malaria. (AllAfrica)

A dramatic drop in the rates of severe childhood malaria in some regions of Kenya is posing new medical challenges as people in high-risk regions lose their immunity and transmission patterns alter, according to researchers. (AllAfrica)

Project (MAP), and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, which has given the country two grants totalling $30 million. (AllAfrica)

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria  was formed in 2001 for the purpose of setting up an innovative approach to providing finance to combat the three diseases that kill more than six million people worldwide every year. (AllAfrica)

Your article on health: "Anti Malarial-Saying Bye to the Bitter Tablet" The New Vision, Monday, November 10 attracted attention because it is part of the good news that will help save about 110,000 Ugandan children who die annually due to malaria. (AllAfrica)

THE Government has implored the Church to partner with it to combat and eradicate malaria that is killing millions of people annually. (AllAfrica)

Nothing But Nets, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation, aims to prevent malaria by providing free mosquito nets for children. In this guest blog, Adrianna Logalbo, deputy director of Nothing But Nets, shares her experiences distributing bed nets in  Côte d'Ivoire. (AllAfrica)

Soaring demand for the antimalarial drug artemisinin could be satisfied with some promising new technologies unveiled by researchers last week (19 November). (AllAfrica)

UGANDANS should not expect the fight against malaria to be spearheaded by foreigners, health experts have advised. (AllAfrica)

THE Government plans to distribute 17 million mosquito nets to fight malaria, the health state minister has said. (AllAfrica)

Some 61 184 Cameroonians have received home-based malaria treatment in one month, the Permanent Secretary of the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria, CCAM, Dr. Prospère Ndong à Bessong has declared. (AllAfrica)

The Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) campaign which was carried out from August 25 to October 18 was a success. This was revealed Thursday by the Center for Infection Control (CIDC) during an evaluation meeting with stakeholders at Hotel la Pallise, Nyandungu. (AllAfrica)

THE first phase of a multi-pronged approach in malaria control in Africa has come to an end in Katakwi district. (AllAfrica)

Mosquito net use increases faster in countries that distribute them freely compared to those where people have to buy them. (AllAfrica)

MALARIA is curable and preventable, but it remains the leading killer disease in Africa. (AllAfrica)

The Government will help hospitals restock anti-Malaria medicines on time, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Agnes Binagwaho, has said. She was reacting to the finding of the Rwanda Service Provision Assessment Survey (RSPA) that was disseminated on Tuesday at Prime Holdings. (AllAfrica)

UGANDA is running out of malaria drugs in public hospitals, after having lost $9.4m (about 17.7b) from the Global Fund over failure to meet the accountability procedures. (AllAfrica)

Mr. Felix Adipare, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in charge of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Municipality, has said many parents in the municipality were depriving their children of the use of treated bed nets, leading to an increase in malaria among children. (AllAfrica)

Standard Chartered Bank has announced the latest launch in Botswana, of its ambitious Africa-wide project called 'Nets for Life- aimed at reducing the Impact of malaria across Africa. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has rejected an application for funding for the SADC Trans-Zambezi Malaria Initiative. (AllAfrica)

There has been an upsurge in the number of malaria cases reported in the sub-region of Lango in northern Uganda due to poor mosquito control, according to health officials. (AllAfrica)

Cape Town - Cabinet has noted with great concern the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe and the reported Cholera outbreak that has so far claimed two lives while others have been hospitalised. (AllAfrica)

PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a motion urging the Government to use DDT and icon to eradicate mosquitos that spread malaria. (AllAfrica)

In view of the over 1.7 million children and pregnant women constantly at risk of malaria infection in Kaduna State, the government has set for itself a target of totally eradicating the disease by 2015 by offering free treatment and attacking the disease through clean environment. (AllAfrica)

The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Welcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children still do not have access to this simple protective tool, and remain at risk from the life-threatening disease. (AllAfrica)

Health ministers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) marked Malaria Day on Friday by spraying houses at Mamfene Village in Northern KwaZulu-Natal with DDT pesticide. (AllAfrica)

UNICEF, in partnership with the government of Japan, has begun distributing 230,000 insecticide treated mosquito nets in Lango region. (AllAfrica)

While much of the world managed to eradicate malaria in the mid-20th century, Sub-Saharan Africa did not. Africa bears the greatest burden of malaria both in human and economic costs. (AllAfrica)

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