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The leaders of Haiti and the Dominican Republic agreed Thursday to cooperate in a campaign aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of malaria from the islands of the Caribbean by 2020.
African states launched an campaign on Wednesday to stop malaria from killing an estimated 1 million people on their continent each year.
Scientists say they may have tracked down the origins of the deadly disease malaria — chimpanzees.
Think your job's tedious? Try beheading 100 mosquitoes an hour.
On the eve of World Malaria Day, the head of UNICEF announced Friday that the agency has enough money to provide bed nets treated with long-lasting insecticide to everyone in Africa at risk of malaria by 2010, which could eliminate by 2015 the almost 1 million deaths annually from the killer disease.
A novel immune cell may offer an important new clue to why malaria kills some people and not others. Australian researchers discovered a specialized cell crowding the bloodstream of severe malaria sufferers but not the less sick — a cell that seems to switch off a different immune-system attack.
A $225 million fund to provide low-price anti-malaria medicine around the world was launched in the Norwegian capital Friday to fight a disease that kills 2,000 children a day.
To most Americans, diseases with names like dengue fever, chikungunya, malaria, Chagas and leishmaniasis might sound like something out of a Victorian explorer’s tales of hacking through African jungles. Yet ongoing epidemics of these diseases are killing millions of people around the world. Now, disease experts are increasingly concerned these and other infections may become as familiar in the United States as West Nile or Lyme disease.
Bill Gates set a conference abuzz when he opened a jar of mosquitoes onstage to make a point about malaria prevention.
"Bill Gates just released mosquitos into the audience at TED and said, 'Not only poor people should experience this.'"
Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.
Malaria as a mass child killer would be virtually eliminated globally by 2015 under a plan backed by nearly $3 billion in pledges, officials said Thursday.
Former President Clinton's foundation has signed pricing agreements with several suppliers involved in making a malaria-fighting drug in an effort to stabilize the medication's fluctuating costs and ensure more dependable availability.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will announce a global initiative Friday that steps up the fight against malaria — seeking to eventually wipe out a tropical scourge blamed for killing a million people a year.
Brazil announced a new malaria treatment Thursday that scientists say offers a potentially cheap and effective way to attack a disease that largely afflicts the world's poor.
The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with malaria. Scientists say no lives are in danger because the volunteers can be cured. The institute is testing which vaccines work fastest.
Guyana health officials said Tuesday they have drastically reduced the number of malaria cases in the interior of this South American country through use of medicines and mosquito nets.
Bill and Melinda Gates appealed to more than 300 malaria scientists and policy makers at a forum Wednesday to take the risky step of seeking to eradicate the disease worldwide instead of just keeping it under control.
Everyone knows that to conquer malaria you must conquer the mosquitoes that carry the parasite. Could one approach be to enlist the help of a hungry fish?
Exposure to the saliva of biting insects could later protect people against infection by insect-borne parasites. If the components of saliva that confer protection can be isolated, they could be used to boost the strength of future vaccines against malaria and other deadly diseases.
The World Bank has announced that it will lend $180 million to help Nigeria and other African countries fight malaria, but stressed it would keep a close eye on the money.
A potential new drug against malaria has been identified, which has cured mice with a drug-resistant form of the disease.
Malaria Consortium - News and EventsDespite increased investment in malaria control demonstrating dramatic success, with the latest artemisinin-based drug combinations proving highly efficient as both treatment and defence against resistance by the malaria parasite, there are new indications that resistance to arte …
Malaria Drugs: Artemisinin-Resistant Strain Appears - TIMEOn the Thai-Cambodian border, a rogue strain of malaria has started to resist artemisinin, the only remaining effective drug in the world's arsenal against malaria's most deadly strain.
Humans still evolving as our brains shrinkEvolution in humans is commonly thought to have essentially stopped in recent times. But there are plenty of examples that the human race is still evolving, including our brains, and there are even signs that our evolution may be accelerating.
Malaria's deadly leap from chimps to humans UMass-led scientists pinpoint the origin of the disease, and that may lead to better treatmentAMHERST - The terrible transfer took only an instant. One mosquito; one hot-blooded human target; one quick puncture of skin. Most likely, our distant ancestor reacted with no more than a scratch and a shrug.
USAID Press Release: USAID Awards NetWorks Malaria Prevention Grant to Johns Hopkins, Malaria Consortium and Catholic Relief ServicesUSAID announced a five year $100 million grant to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs (CCP), with Malaria Consortium and Catholic Relief Services to ensure the distribution and proper use of long-lasting insecticide treated bed …
IRIN Africa: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malariaEncouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference in Nairobi.
Millions die because of high malaria drug pricesNearly a million people die from malaria each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead often buy old drugs to which the malaria parasite has become resistant
Malaria vaccine for Africa likely to be distributed from 2015The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the "milestone moment" of the continent's largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times.
Alert over new malaria trendMalaria-causing mosquitoes in Kenya circumventing bednets by feeding before people go to bed
Surveys for major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa can be integratedAccording to research undertaken by Malaria Consortium Africa and published today in the high profile journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, it is possible to survey major tropical diseases simultaneously, thereby effectively reducing the time and money required to identify a …
Extreme Genetic Variability In Malaria Parasite FoundResearchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world.
The Malaria Consortium Releases African Coalitions Against Malaria Case StudyRecently, The Malaria Consortium released the "African Coalitions Against Malaria" case study. The study, which describes a successful model of engaging African civil society, draws on three years of experienced of the 'Mobilsing for Malaria' advocacy program.
A Tiny Tax Could Do a World of Good AS leaders of the world's largest economies gather today in Pittsburgh for the Group of 20 meeting, people in the world's poorest countries will likely look on with a mix of hope and trepidation, wondering whether their needs will figure in the deliberations at all.
New malaria 'poses human threat'An emerging new form of malaria poses a deadly threat to humans, research has shown.
An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?It is a description of work led by Anandasankar Ray, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, on fruit flies and their sensitivity to carbon dioxide. The researchers report that they have identified a compound that blocks the ability of the insects to detect it.
WHO warns against homeopathy usePeople with conditions such as HIV, TB and malaria should not rely on homeopathic treatments, the World Health Organization has warned.
The Forgotten War That Could Kill Millions of ChildrenOn the border between Thailand and Cambodia, a mighty battle is taking place – and the outcome will determine whether millions of people live or die.
Big Pharma Demands For Profits Kill People and Prevent the Development Life-saving DrugsThis article documents how drug company's demand for profits kills people and encourages research into drugs that make money not drugs that would save the most lives, The drug company's also spend more money on advertizing than on what little they put into research--and much of …
Malaria may have come from chimpsMalaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection.
Mosquitoes Deliver Malaria 'Vaccine' Through BitesMalaria kills nearly a million people each year, mostly children under 5 and especially in Africa. Infected mosquitoes inject immature malaria parasites into the skin when they bite; these travel to the liver where they mature and multiply.
British scientists ask WHO to condemn homeopathy for diseases such as HIVBritish scientists have appealed to the World Health Organisation to publicly condemn homeopathy as a treatment for serious diseases, such as HIV, TB and malaria.
Malaria Appears to be Developing a Resistance to DrugsFailure to contain these parasites, might cause history to repeat itself - and the fear is that many millions of people worldwide will be at even greater risk.
Malaria may be developing resistance to main drugsMalaria could be developing resistance to the most effective type of drug, potentially threatening the lives of millions.
Doctors welcome malaria microchipScientists from Glasgow University claim they have created a device which can detect malaria within minutes.
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