Roger Bate | 02 Apr 2024 | Foreign Policy
We have all heard the stats and the supposed fixes for malaria: The mosquito-borne illness claims the lives of roughly a million people each year. Ninety percent of the deaths will be in Africa, mostly among pregnant women and children. Thanks to poor medical care and uneven prevention, 10 malaria victims will die before you finish reading this column.
Richard Tren | 31 Mar 2024 | Canadian Medical Association Journal
Paracelsus, the 16th-century Swiss physician, cottoned onto an important concept that has served humanity well: "The dose makes the poison." Most of us unknowingly accept this important observation as we drink our first cup of coffee in the morning or drink a beer at the end of the day.
None | 11 Mar 2024 | Africa Fighting Malaria
The idea that local production of goods increases access to those goods has captured the imagination of many policy makers, politicians and individuals for countless decades. Yet the evidence to back this up is absent.
None | 02 Mar 2024 | Africa Fighting Malaria
A range of antimalarial drugs were procured from private pharmacies, shops and kiosks within the urban and peri-urban areas of Lusaka, Zambia. Semi-quantitative thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and disintegration tests were conducted to measure active pharmaceutical ingredient content against internationally acceptable standards.
Roger Bate | 01 Mar 2024 | Economic Affairs
The Government of India has at last signaled its intention to combat the menace of fake pharmaceuticals. Last October the upper house of the Indian Government passed into law amendments to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940, which create a comprehensive national food and drug authority, replacing the ineffectual structure where responsibility was shared between Centre and States and the villains operated freely in the gaps in between.
Joe De Capua | 26 Feb 2024 | Voice of America
A new study suggests that one of the most important malaria drugs, artemether-lumefantrine, may remain potent well after its shelf-life was thought to expire. The study, published in the Malaria Journal, says the drug used in artemisinin-based therapy could possibly be used years after its listed expiration date.
Roger Bate | 19 Feb 2024 | SciDev.Net
Insecticides are the most important preventative tool against malaria, dengue and filariasis. Even for yellow fever, where a vaccine exists, insecticides are needed to control common outbreaks.
Jasson Urbach | 04 Feb 2024 | iafrica.com
Zimbabwe's economic meltdown has caused a number of preventable and curable diseases to run rampant, claiming lives needlessly. Basic services have been neglected and precautionary measures to prevent the outbreak of diseases such as cholera and malaria have been abandoned.
Jasson Urbach | 26 Jan 2024 | Daily Independent (Lagos)
The European Union banned scores of pesticides this month under the pretence of protecting human health and the environment.
Richard Tren | 22 Jan 2024 | Business Day (South Africa)
The European Parliament recently approved new regulations that may effectively ban a number of chemicals used in popular pesticides.