Art Chimes | 09 Sep 2023 | Voice of America
The fight against malaria may have taken a promising step forward with the latest tests of a new kind of vaccine, which aims to keep people healthy and prevent the infection from spreading.
Emmanuel Gyezaho | 08 Sep 2023 | Daily Monitor
China sponsored tests of an anti-malaria drug on patients in Mulago Hospital even when the drug had not been approved by the World Health Organisation for use, leaked US cables reveal.
The revelations are contained in a diplomatic cables leaked by whistleblower website, Wikileaks, which then America's envoy to Uganda, Jerry Lanier, sent to Washington in February 2010 discussing Chinese "engagement" in Uganda.
Mr Lanier wrote that in a space of five years, Chinese investments in Uganda, which as late as 2005 "included only a restaurant and hotel", had swelled to place China behind the UK with a reported $213m (Shs447 billion then) to the country by 2009.
Mr Lanier, however, wrote that "negative perceptions among many Ugandans of Sino business practices, corruption and shoddy products", had tagged along with greater Chinese investments in Uganda, citing the anti-malaria drugs donations and queries over the multi-billion shilling national data transmission project.
"For instance, in January 2010, the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda (Sun Heping) delivered 240,000 doses of two Chinese anti-malaria drugs to Uganda at a public event that was featured in large paid advertisements in local papers," wrote Mr Lanier, who added: "It was later revealed that one of the drugs, Arco, had not been pre-qualified by the World Health Organisation, and that part of the funding for the malaria clinic in Mulago Hospital was earmarked for testing of these drugs."
Overtreating Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jill Braden Balderas | 22 Aug 2023 | PBS NewsHour
In countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, health workers often treat patients for malaria even when a test indicates the parasite isn't present. The practice worries many health experts.
Matt McGrath | 17 Aug 2023 | BBC News
Mosquitoes can rapidly develop resistance to bed nets treated with insecticide, a study from Senegal says. In recent years the nets have become a leading method of preventing malaria, especially in Africa.
None | 13 Aug 2023 | The Independent
Malaria is spread to humans by female mosquitoes who suck blood in order to help their offspring grow, but British scientists said Monday that introducing spermless males could halt the deadly disease.
MDGs: So much done, so much more undone
Sulaimon Olanrewaju | 02 Aug 2023 | Nigerian Tribune
With 2015, the target year for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) four years away, Sulaimon Olanrewaju reviews the efforts of the Federal Government towards the actualisation of the goals.
Art Chimes | 29 Jul 2023 | Voice of America
A team of U.S. scientists has shown how a malaria vaccine could be more effective by making it work against different strains of the malaria parasite. The discovery may help develop more effective vaccines for other diseases, too. Many vaccines are administered in a serum contain adjuvants - substances that enhance the protective effect of the vaccine itself.
Patrick Clark | 28 Jul 2023 | Bloomberg
He'll begin trials for his smartphone-based diagnostic app later this summer in India and Ethiopia
None | 19 Jul 2023 | IRIN News
As Papua New Guinea continues its battle to contain and prevent malaria, officials say the government's decision to resign as the principal recipient (PR) of monies from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, will improve its response.
Katharine Houreld | 13 Jul 2023 | Associated Press
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 help fund one such pungent project in Tanzania.