Maggie Fox | 08 Dec 2023 | Reuters
An experimental malaria vaccine is the most promising yet, protecting up to 65 percent of infants from infection in two studies in Africa, researchers reported on Monday.
Tamar Kahn | 11 Nov 2023 | Business Day (South Africa)
Scientists hoped to start final tests on the world's most
advanced malaria vaccine early next year, they said yesterday.
None | 09 Oct 2023 | Nature
Malaria's moment has come, but success in control, let alone eradication, demands a renewed commitment to basic research. A Global Malaria Action Plan, announced at the UN Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit in New York on 25 September, has the ambitious goals of both reducing the malaria burden and eradicating the disease entirely.
None | 22 Aug 2023 | Science Daily
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute have identified a previously unknown virus that is infectious to Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito primarily responsible for transmitting malaria.
Jeanne Whalen | 18 Jul 2023 | Wall Street Journal Health Blog
This year Japan started awarding a medical prize that it hopes will someday rival the Nobel in significance: the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, named after a scientist who worked on yellow fever in Latin American and Africa in the early 20th century. Japan gives the prize, which comes with a $1 million award, to people who advance public health in Africa. In May, the inaugural award went to Miriam Were, a Kenyan public health worker focused on reducing the stigma of HIV, and Brian Greenwood, a malaria researcher and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Greenwood spent more than 30 years in Africa, "pioneering landmark research to deepen our understanding of the immunology, epidemiology and many other aspects of malaria," according to the announcement of the award. The Health Blog caught up with Greenwood after the Japanese Embassy in London hosted a reception for him recently.
Malovika Rao | 25 Mar 2024 | livemint.com
Bangalore: Philips Electronics India Ltd is developing microscope-based portable diagnostic kits for rural health care workers that can be used to test for tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in an attempt to address a significant gap in the country's health care programme.
Albert Muriuki | 24 Mar 2024 | Business Daily (Nairobi)
The war against malaria, a leading global killer, has moved a notch higher with the announcement of successful clinical trials of a vaccine for children - the group that is most vulnerable to the disease.
Ben Hirschler | 27 Feb 2024 | Reuters
The first new global malaria map in 40 years shows nearly half the 2.37 billion people at risk from the mosquito-borne killer live in areas where the chance of actually catching the disease is less than 0.01 percent a year.
Staff Writers | 28 Jan 2024 | East African Standard
Researchers at the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanga Region of Tanzania are carrying out a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunological potential of a candidate malaria vaccine called MSP3-LSP.
Staff Writers | 28 Jan 2024 | WebWire
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the not-for-profit group, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), recently announced a new collaboration to identify novel drugs for the treatment of malaria.