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, 27 Jan 2022 04:59:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHIgzqFYWWL-ReIF_fEM9tn [Malaria Consortium] To build on and boost gains made in Uganda's mission to eradicate malaria, Malaria Consortium is implementing a new project - Supporting Uganda's Malaria Reduction and Elimination Strategy (SUMRES) - over two years. The project will directly benefit close to three million people across 11 districts, including pregnant women and children under five years' old.]]> Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:15:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHIgzqFYWWL-ReIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHfy-N8uSPq24vmyuk5fxzE [SciDev.Net] Lagos -- Malaria parasites may have adapted so that they can cause severe malaria in people with sickle cell disease, a study suggests.]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:35:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHfy-N8uSPq24vmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEGeXSGY52bBGZMehmtHS8- [Capital FM] Nairobi -- New estimates reveal that at least 1.27 million deaths per year are directly attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:29:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEGeXSGY52bBGZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF1fDNi6bgC32Fk24e89-qg [Leadership] The chairman of Prince Ned Nwoko Foundation and Antarctica explorer, Hon Ned Nwoko, has explained his quest for the federal government's approval of the establishment of a separate agency that will handle malaria issues in the country.]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:29:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF1fDNi6bgC32Fk24e89-qg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHfRqQvnPNMBgpx5_w21kha [The Point] ChildFund The Gambia last Friday handed over 16,000 LLIN mosquito bed nets to regional health directorates at a ceremony held at Sama Kairo Federation in Brikama.]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2022 19:22:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQHfRqQvnPNMBgpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF9z-7xc3ceVcfGo0LrnZNO [The Conversation Africa] In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that almost half the world's population was at risk of malaria, while some 627,000 people died from the disease.]]> Sun, 16 Jan 2022 13:09:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF9z-7xc3ceVcfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEmhVUbB5qJtXKSkciKEY1s [AIM] An academic study published in the peer-reviewed journal "Economics and Human Biology" has found that a drastic reduction in the incidence of malaria leads to improved outcomes in education.]]> Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:12:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQEmhVUbB5qJtXKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQErwcsFiL2hTmnhpmeYcemU [Africa Renewal] The call for a total ban of DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), a synthetic insecticide used in malaria-endemic countries that causes harm to the environment and human body, has sparked a debate.]]> Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:56:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQErwcsFiL2hTmnhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF1vGSExf3YMwC0qH-r7xlT [Malaria Consortium] Community health workers in rural Nigeria without formal medical education can successfully identify, treat and refer cases of malnutrition in children under five when using simplified tools and having received training, a study carried out by Malaria Consortium in Niger state found. The results were published in BMC Health Services Research.]]> Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:27:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF1vGSExf3YMwC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQE7Rv8xy4A9DntuT6pSmY81 [Malaria Consortium] Malaria Consortium researchers were part of a team assessing Ugandan health facilities' capacity to provide quality malaria testing, care and treatment and found high malaria testing rates among those suspected to have malaria. This was a notable improvement compared to previous years and met the target set by the National Malaria Reduction Strategic Plan to reduce morbidity and mortality. The study results were published in Malaria Journal.]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:29:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQE7Rv8xy4A9DntuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH-TPZbV8if_Uoy9CZgXDJO [Nyasa Times] Malaria is killing more people in Malawi than Covid-19, the National Malaria Control Programme Manager Dr. Michael Kayange has disclosed.]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:21:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH-TPZbV8if_Uoy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGiEdWOcsTWtkTXPGaG87AR [The Conversation Africa] Reports of sporadic resistance to modern malaria drugs have begun appearing in recent years, and are now confirmed in Rwanda and Uganda. The Conversation Africa's Ina Skosana asked infectious diseases experts Deus Ishengoma and Fredros Okumu to explain this development and what the implications are.]]> Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:06:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGiEdWOcsTWtkTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERGfJ6oZsOjmhamfNIiY2W [WHO] Geneva -- Inequities have been widely acknowledged as barriers to achieving global and national goals and targets in HIV, TB and malaria programs. However, the magnitude and extent of underlying health inequalities have remained poorly documented and understood.]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:43:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQERGfJ6oZsOjmhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGNDGW7fYvMulT72x6uxjiK [WHO] Inequities have been widely acknowledged as barriers to achieving global and national goals and targets in HIV, TB and malaria programs. However, the magnitude and extent of underlying health inequalities have remained poorly documented and understood.]]> Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:16:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGNDGW7fYvMulT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF58dTrBgTNVPdczOo_8W9B [Unicef] Up to 75,000 displaced people -- including 35,000 children - living in a remote and inaccessible hilltop camp for displaced people in the province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are braving "hellish conditions" without adequate food, shelter, protection, security and sanitation, UNICEF has warned.]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:29:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQF58dTrBgTNVPdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH07EgpK6LD_kTXPGaG87AR [The Herald] GOVERNEMNT has disbursed $9 billion to all the country's provinces for spraying programmes and distributed 400 000 bed net re-treatment kits as part of preparations for this year's malaria season.]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:37:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH07EgpK6LD_kTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFG793AjFMH2lyOSYGFl6uu [The Conversation Africa] The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on international malaria control and elimination efforts. According to the latest World Malaria Report, there were an estimated 14 million more cases of malaria in 2020 compared to 2019.]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 06:18:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFG793AjFMH2lyOSYGFl6uu https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH-yUxh1dW1xiuZukmJ4mr4 [Ghanaian Times] Tanyigbe -- Malaria cases have been reducing steadily in Tanyigbe in the Ho municipality for the past four months.]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 10:33:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQH-yUxh1dW1xiuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFYdNo0LPc1Ah-xWH3zZqEA [UN News] Disruptions due to the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 08:43:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQFYdNo0LPc1Ah-xWH3zZqEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGMyUE8TylclYeLGixeGJZp [WHO] Worst case scenario averted, but urgent action needed to meet global malaria targets]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2021 08:38:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/TFsWHapRTQGMyUE8TylclYeLGixeGJZp