Tag Archives: Malaria
By Ambassador Donald Koran, opinion Today, around half the world’s population is at risk from malaria – a preventable and treatable disease that claims the life of a child every minute. Just ten years ago it was estimated that globally, … read more »
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Tagged Barack Obama, Disease, Health, HIV positive people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Rwanda, World Malaria Day
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By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma Almost half the world’s population – an estimated three billion people – live in areas where malaria is transmitted. Endemic to 107 countries in the tropics and subtropics, it is responsible for around one million deaths … read more »
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Tagged Disease, HIV, HIV positive people, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Mosquito net, sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF
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By Imogen Lamb, April 25 is World Malaria Day, a day designed to highlight a disease that continues to kill almost 700,000 people around the world every year. Most of the deaths occur in young children under five years old. … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, Congo, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Op-ed, Somali, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Conditions and Diseases, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kinshasa, Malaria, World Malaria Day
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By JONES MUNANG’ANDU, MALARIA is protozoa infection of the genus plasmodium. There are four (4) main species of parasites that infect humans; Plasmodium falciparum, plaslesmodium vivax, plasmodium malariae and plasmodium ovale. Of these the most common in Zambia and indeed … read more »
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Tagged Anopheles, Disease, HIV, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, Pregnancy, Zambia
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Antananarivo – A particularly severe outbreak of malaria in Madagascar has killed seven people since the beginning of the month and has left 60 others in need of hospitalisation, the country’s health minister said on Thursday. Madagascar has seen an … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Madagascar, News
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Tagged afria travel, Disease, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Indian Ocean, Johanita Ndahimananjara, Madagascar, Malaria, map africa, map of africa, Mosquito net, news, South Africa, travel to africa
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Participants at a day’s workshop organised by African Media and Malaria Network (AMMREN) called for effective preventive and pragmatic strategies to eradicate malaria especially in pregnant women and children in Africa. In a 10-point communiqué issued at the end of … read more »
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Last year on World Malaria Day, we mourned the fact that one child died every 45 seconds from this disease. This year, we have managed to slow the clock. It remains a monumental tragedy that one child dies every minute … read more »
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Conditions and Diseases, Disease, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, infectious diseases, Malaria, Mosquito net, World Malaria Day
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By Alex Duval Smith in Porto Novo – Guardian Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers In the markets of … read more »
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Tagged Benin, Chloroquine, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Katine, Lancet, Malaria, Porto-Novo, UNICEF
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When it comes to the new malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) now being tested on infants in the east African country of Tanzania I will let the words of an industry insider tell it best.. “There is not much … read more »
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Tagged Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, clinical trial, GlaxoSmithKline, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Malaria vaccine, United States
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The World Health Organization is defending its numbers on global malaria deaths and disputes a new study claiming that nearly twice as many people die of malaria than previously believed. The study, which appears in the British health journal, The … read more »
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Tagged Death, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Lancet, Malaria, Seattle, University of Washington, World Health Organization
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While the Kenyan political elite concentrate on shoring up their own personal fortunes, the masses of the Kenyan people are turned into ‘destitutes’. In November/December 2011, I travelled to Kenya as I have done for many years as a Kenyan … read more »
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Tagged AIDS, Antiretroviral drug, Goldenberg Scandal, HIV, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenyan, Malaria, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Report calls for measures to prevent circulation of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines that threaten millions of lives. Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be wrecked by criminals who are circulating counterfeit and substandard drugs, threatening millions of lives, scientists … read more »
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Tagged Artemisinin, China, Guangzhou, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Nigeria, Paul Newton, World Health Organization
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U.S. intelligence says the terror threat from al-Qaeda is receding, but Congress keeps on expanding the scope of this “war” so as not to look “weak on terror,” now adding new military powers that could be used against American citizens, … read more »
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October 19, 2011 by benim
Eradicating malaria is not a vague, unrealistic aspiration but a tough, ambitious goal that can be reached within the next few decades, the billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said on Tuesday. In an interview with Reuters at his Gates Foundation’s Malaria … read more »
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Yaounde – Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang on Saturday launched an anti-malaria campaign, promising to distribute nine million free mosquito nets. The nationwide campaign named “KO palu” (knock out malaria) will last a month and aims to ensure that the … read more »
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Sending daily text message reminders to health workers can mean nearly 25 percent more children are properly treated for malaria, according to the results of a six month trial conducted in Kenya. Researchers reporting their findings in The Lancet said … read more »
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What do mosquitoes like more than clean, human skin? Stinky socks. Scientists think the musky odor of human feet can be used to attract and kill mosquitoes that carry deadly malaria. The Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday that it will … read more »
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A total of 179 people died of the malaria disease in the Ashanti Region, last year, Dr Aaron Offei, the Regional Director of Health Services, has said. This showed a significant rise in the number of deaths, compared with the … read more »
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Cape Town – Malaria costs Africa $12bn a year in lost productivity, an expense that businesses can reduce by investing in prevention schemes, said a study released on Thursday. “Malaria is bad for business. The disease is responsible for decreased … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, breaking news, Cape Town, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthWorldIndepthNigeria, Malaria, map of africa, News local news, newspapers, Roll Back Malaria, World Economic Forum, World Malaria Day, World news
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I’m extremely grateful to be invited to share my voice alongside all these incredible women on International Women’s Day. As an ambassador for the global health organization PSI (Population Services International), I’ve been fortunate to have traveled to places like … read more »
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November 7, 2010 by benim
It is an established fact that malaria is wasting away precious lives of majority people. And it is striking to know that the battle against malaria is seemingly being lost. Apart from the fact that malaria exacts significant cost burden … read more »
Posted in Analysis, Health, News
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Tagged Africa news, Brong Ahafo Region, Ghana, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Malaria, Richard Feachem, sub-Saharan Africa, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, World Health Organization
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