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 Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:47:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQG0Z5qBSaDYggO5yOwvVe_2 [ANGOP] Sumbe -- The United Nations Global Fund is to grant 126 million US dollars to Angola for the next financing cycle (2024/2027) to support the programme to combat malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Cuanza Sul and Benguela provinces.]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:06:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQG0Z5qBSaDYggO5yOwvVe_2 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHRFYJl0ts4MIMOI2eu70Rg [FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Dr. David Walton, United States of America's new Global Malaria Coordination, has commended the Ministry of Health, along with community health workers, for a 'laudable job' done in the fight to reduce the rate of malaria infection cases in Liberia.]]> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:53:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHRFYJl0ts4MIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFSdPDXoLxhqIMOI2eu70Rg [WHO] Since 2005, over 2 billion insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed worldwide to prevent malaria. All of these nets were treated with only one insecticide class - pyrethroids. However, as mosquitoes in many areas are now resistant to pyrethroids, nets treated with other active ingredients are needed to control malaria.]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:37:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFSdPDXoLxhqIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFz9GyZpVpBoAp41t9tiERU [New Times] In a world still grappling with malaria elimination, Rwanda was the first country to integrate and deploy drones in the most malaria endemic zones of the country for an accelerated outcome.]]> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:32:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFz9GyZpVpBoAp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGbGYft2-2bIOm6srrLMsqK [WHO] WHO is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Daniel Ngamije Madandi, MD, MPH as Director of the Global Malaria Programme, effective 8 April 2023.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:28:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGbGYft2-2bIOm6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEPtXyxwzqWAJONpYks2fGs [UN News] UN agencies on Monday were scrambling to reach millions affected by the deadly tropical cyclone Freddy, which has worsened cholera outbreaks in Malawi and Mozambique as communities recover from devastating damages caused by storms, massive flooding, and mudslides.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:03:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEPtXyxwzqWAJONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGvMKvx7srAda7VFky8BpXO [allAfrica] Harare -- Authorities are still grappling with the magnitude of Cyclone Freddy's devastation in Malawi and Mozambique, with over 370 people verified deceased, hundreds still missing, and tens of thousands displaced.]]> Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:36:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGvMKvx7srAda7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFAihLUq7O3hNKEpFgimKzx [Nile Post] Butebo leaders have blamed the high number of Malaria related deaths in the district to drug stock out.]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:34:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFAihLUq7O3hNKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHW4vjaM4_qJHMq2h3ehXEp [Seychelles News Agency] Wrongly classified mosquito larvae in Seychelles have now been rightly attributed to a new species after an entomologist and his team analysed new samples through the use of genetic sequencing.]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:23:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHW4vjaM4_qJHMq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFfktcMr1AxVrDXWBZfdr71 [Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- A species of mosquito that can carry malaria known as Anopheles stephensi has invaded eastern Africa. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, in October 2020 asked Jeremy Herren and Clifford Mutero; scientists at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, to provide insights into why this invasion is happening and what can be done to protect people.]]> Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:27:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFfktcMr1AxVrDXWBZfdr71 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGorWVdQEWRnwaB2UxGNFpJ [VOA] Nairobi -- Kenya this week rolled out a campaign using the world's first vaccine against malaria to inoculate more than 400,000 children against the mosquito-borne disease. Health officials say malaria kills more than 12,000 Kenyans each year and more than half a million people in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them children.]]> Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:25:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGorWVdQEWRnwaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF-JME32Ex9KuifqJurszLU [Dabanga] Khartoum / Omdurman -- The Ministry of Health in Khartoum has stressed the need for urgent action to control the dengue fever outbreak, along with an increase in malaria infections.]]> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:03:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF-JME32Ex9KuifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF5aKBkguFjJqbel3Iu4GjH [The Conversation Africa] The Kenya Medical Research Institute recently detected an invasive mosquito species in Laisamis and Saku subcounties of Marsabit county in Kenya's northern region.]]> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:41:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF5aKBkguFjJqbel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFLf3BUE67QwUoy9CZgXDJO [PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative] Nairobi -- Kenya's Ministry of Health announced that, starting on March 7, 2023, more children in the country will benefit from the added protection of the world's first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (or RTS,S). The malaria vaccine expansion follows the Kenya National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (KENITAG) recommendation for expansion within Kenya's lake-endemic region and the 2021 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation for broader use of the vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and in other re]]> Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:12:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFLf3BUE67QwUoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFeTfCB7E8_VDHgrmwRGUK6 [Daily News] Morogoro -- IFAKARA Health Institute (IHI) researchers in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region have started using drones to identify mosquito breeding sites which are hard to reach and kill them by spraying insecticides.]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 19:25:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFeTfCB7E8_VDHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQE4gPwfJoBVDAVLTsI7B9NX [New Times] Rwanda is among the recipients of the Excellence and Innovation Awards for advancing the digitalisation agenda for malaria, reproductive, maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH), and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) to enhance data driven decision-making.]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:38:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQE4gPwfJoBVDAVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHHAFRiiS0zNle5jCclomp- [Africa Check] IN SHORT: It's not surprising that certain claims go viral online, like the one that a cure for a dangerous disease was discovered by an anonymous Chinese woman who wasn't even a doctor. What is surprising here is how close to the truth this unlikely story is.]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:22:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHHAFRiiS0zNle5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEzlbS-tKBKCabel3Iu4GjH [Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya Medical Research Inistitute (KEMRI) researchers have detected a new dangerous mosquito vector dubbed 'Anopheles Stephensi' that thrives in urban and rural areas.]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:22:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEzlbS-tKBKCabel3Iu4GjH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFI0MjHuRU-xEGb1Jh49AJn [AIM] Maputo, 30 Jan (AIM) - 1.2 million children aged between three and 59 months in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula will be covered by the seasonal malaria prevention campaign during the current rainy season.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:05:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFI0MjHuRU-xEGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH8_SEEMs0-X1T72x6uxjiK [SciDev.Net] Dar-Es-Salaami -- Using machine learning techniques to predict the age of mosquitoes from different populations could reduce turnaround time for malaria research and improve surveillance programmes, a study says.]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2023 13:19:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH8_SEEMs0-X1T72x6uxjiK