Follow AllAfrica News: Malaria, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-malaria Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:12:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHjI2GCBNLkx3Mq2h3ehXEp [Malaria Consortium] Malaria Consortium researchers, in collaboration with the National Malaria Control Programme in Mozambique, have undertaken a phased implementation study in Nampula province to understand if seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a feasible and acceptable intervention to prevent malaria in children under five. The study also assesses the protective effect of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and amodiaquine (AQ) when used for SMC, as well as investigating the levels of molecular markers of resistance of Pl]]> Wed, 22 Sep 2021 16:28:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHjI2GCBNLkx3Mq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFNRSbBwRlLVbDXWBZfdr71 [MSF] In Haramia, as in 14 other villages in the commune of Bandé in southern Niger, villagers are living through a rainy season much different to previous years. In these villages, our teams have launched water treatment activities to prevent the development of mosquito larvae who spread malaria.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:33:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFNRSbBwRlLVbDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGGWyLwa6zVbe-bbeigX9oC [DW] BioNTech wants to continue the success of its COVID-19 vaccine and use mRNA technology to develop shots against malaria. But is production in Africa realistic?]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2021 10:06:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGGWyLwa6zVbe-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFjD4Wc_wLloslTP0vptTFR [The Herald] Correspondent]]> Tue, 07 Sep 2021 11:10:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFjD4Wc_wLloslTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGGdmvjCIE8HclTP0vptTFR [Monitor] President Museveni has vowed to launch a full war against mosquitoes and malaria saying the focus has been on curative side and not so much on prevention and elimination.]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:09:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGGdmvjCIE8HclTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFunOxdenNEEVw3HFUzDTIP [IPS] In the midst of the tragedy and turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it's gratifying to see work continuing in Africa to find new ways of fighting malaria, a very old disease that has been a formidable foe for thousands of years and still kills 400,000 people every year, most of them African children under five years old.]]> Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:07:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFunOxdenNEEVw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERR8YAampWc-GrEXdXG_66 [Daily News] THE government in collaboration with the country's medical research centres, National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and other stakeholders' reiterated its commitment to end malaria infection by 2030.]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:39:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERR8YAampWc-GrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERR8YAampWc_9M7fKGWt0o [WHO] In this Q&A, Dr Kwaku Poku Asante, director of the Kintampo Health Research Centre in Ghana reflects on the potential implications of the RTS,S seasonal vaccination study findings for Ghana and other countries in the region.]]> Tue, 31 Aug 2021 08:33:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERR8YAampWc_9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFTCu4_Ba-DU-m6srrLMsqK [Daily News] THE government has expressed confidence in its efforts to cut Malaria infection to less than 3 per cent come 2025 as it seeks to completely eliminate the disease by 2030.]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:53:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFTCu4_Ba-DU-m6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGvKzLTXxfwBvdczOo_8W9B [The Conversation Africa] It has been said that malaria breeds poverty, and poverty breeds malaria. This is the reality in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where after decades of control initiatives there were still some 384,000 deaths and 188 million malaria cases in 2019.]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:12:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGvKzLTXxfwBvdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHLw5IOhi9t5rb9ICM-PHur [263Chat] The government has urged citizens to brace for another outbreak of malaria following a surge of cases last season.]]> Sat, 28 Aug 2021 08:30:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHLw5IOhi9t5rb9ICM-PHur https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGZmxpXQIknGcfGo0LrnZNO [SciDev.Net] A microbe that is transmitted between male and female mosquitoes but can also block reproduction could be key to controlling malaria by targeting its release into mosquito populations, a study says.]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:15:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGZmxpXQIknGcfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGkuGV_PSyivc4HQhe4ZUzd [Daily Trust] The recent report that nine persons die from malaria every hour in Nigeria, is as disheartening as it is scary. This is not because the figure emphasises the deadliness of the disease as we have always known that malaria is among the top killer diseases in the country, but because it is an indication that after all these years, no significant progress has been made in the fight against the disease.]]> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:19:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGkuGV_PSyivc4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEbxuJJK_VpHiVCAQLB0bf5 [Monitor] Malaria -- related deaths and infections have been halved under the auspices of Malaria Consortium's Malaria Action Programme for Districts (MAPD).]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:43:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEbxuJJK_VpHiVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFGgkepkBhdYZ8v71dCn6bG [New Era] Paheja Siririka]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 09:26:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFGgkepkBhdYZ8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHpu68vyffqy1T72x6uxjiK [Malaria Consortium] Malaria Consortium is today celebrating the successful close of the United States Government (USG)-funded Malaria Action Program for Districts (MAPD), having achieved impressive results in improving the health status of the Ugandan population by reducing malaria transmission, morbidity and contributing to a 49 percent national reduction in malaria-related mortality since the project began in 2016.]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:51:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHpu68vyffqy1T72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHpu68vyffqyzRQaTQYXBS9 [The Conversation Africa] For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, 'malaria', derived from two Italian words meaning 'bad air', highlights the confusion around the transmission of this disease. It was only following the discovery of malaria parasites in the gut of Anopheles mosquitoes in India by Sir Ronald Ross on 20 August 1897 that a clearer picture of the role of the mosquito in the malaria transmission cycle emerged.]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:38:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHpu68vyffqyzRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGtDiCKJDTK1y1Ly282xAAw [VOA] Machinga -- Malawi had nearly 7 million malaria cases last year, more than a third of the population, with 2,500 lives lost to the mosquito-borne disease. However, one village has become a model for how to eradicate malaria and in June was honored as the first ever to have zero malaria cases for a whole year.]]> Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:36:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGtDiCKJDTK1y1Ly282xAAw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGge8nC66EkdgSngkwrdsok [University of Glasgow] A new approach to tackling the spread of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, which combines affordable, easy-to-administer blood tests with machine learning and unbreakable encryption, has generated encouraging early results in Uganda.]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:34:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGge8nC66EkdgSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGge8nC66EkdgC0qH-r7xlT [The Conversation Africa] Malaria is one of the world's leading causes of illness and death. Around 229 million people are infected each year and more than 400,000 of them die.]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2021 15:51:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGge8nC66EkdgC0qH-r7xlT