None | 16 Jul 2023 | The New Dawn
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued Executive Order No. 42, waiving all taxes and tariffs on key anti-malaria commodities and products determined jointly by the Ministries of Health & Social Welfare and Finance.
Juan Tamayo | 02 Jul 2023 | The Miami Herald
A Cuban company is increasing sales of its mosquito larvicides to fight malaria in Africa, despite cautions by U.N. experts that such products have limited use and are not the most cost-effective method of attacking the disease.
None | 18 Jun 2023 | International Business Times
Giving young children medicine once a month during the rainy season to protect them against malaria could prevent tens of thousands of deaths each year in some areas of Africa, according to new research.
Tim Hinchliffe | 13 Jun 2023 | Ghanaian Chronicle
AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) and the Global Fund are teaming up to increase Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) to 40 districts across the country, as part of an integrated malaria control programme, according an AGA press release.
Shan Juan | 12 Jun 2023 | China Daily
Michael O'Leary, the World Health Organization Representative in China, has defended the quality of Chinese-made anti-malaria drugs after an international study said substandard and counterfeit products, some originated in China, were undermining intervention efforts in Africa.
Faranaaz Parker | 07 Jun 2023 | Mail & Guardian
Tucked away in a building complex off Modderfontein Road in Sandringham is one of Africa's great scientific resources. It's not a supercomputer or an array of radio telescopes but a small, square building filled with millions of mosquitoes.
Michael Seear | 01 Jun 2023 | The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Selling of substandard and counterfeit drugs has been an issue ever since an early herbalist's assistant noted that one pile of dry herbs looked much like another. The only changes have been the increasing expertise and extent of the problem.
None | 31 May 2023 | The Namibian
Health Minister Richard Kamwi welcomed the introduction of the Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management to control malaria last week in Geneva. The plan was introduced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the RBM Partnership.
Malaria tablets' price up in Teso, Bungoma
Reuben Olita | 25 May 2023 | The Star (Nairobi)
Residents of Bungoma and Teso have appealed to the government to intervene and avert the subsidised AL malaria tablets crisis. Two weeks after the 24-packet tablets disappeared from the shelves, the price has shot up by 200 per cent.
Third of malaria drugs 'are fake'
Michelle Roberts | 21 May 2023 | BBC News
A third of malaria drugs used around the world to stem the spread of the disease are counterfeit, data suggests. Researchers who looked at 1,500 samples of seven malaria drugs from seven countries in South East Asia say poor-quality and fake tablets are causing drug resistance and treatment failure.