24 Jun 2023 | DNDi
NEW YORK - June 24, 2023 - Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), an independent, non-profit pharmaceutical organization, will bring together more than 150 scientists, researchers, academics and global health leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America on June 26, 2008, to discuss how international research partnerships can best develop and deliver new lifesaving drugs for neglected diseases.
Africa Fighting Malaria | 23 Apr 2023 | Medical News Today
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) is a highly effective method of malaria
control recommended by the World Health Organization, but it is
underutilized and under-funded. Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) maintains
that all methods of malaria control must be scaled up - not just
insecticide-treated nets - in order to reduce the 1 million deaths
caused by deadly mosquitoes annually.
PLoS Medicine | 05 Nov 2023 | Eurekalert.org
Research in Zanzibar, Tanzania has found a remarkable fall in the number of children dying from malaria. Within a three-year period (2002 to 2005), malaria deaths among the islands' children dropped to a quarter of the previous level and overall child deaths to half.
22 Oct 2023 | American Red Cross
The government of Madagascar, in collaboration with international partners, is launching a national health campaign to vaccinate more than 2.8 million children against measles and distribute more than 1.5 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent the spread of malaria—diseases which take the lives of more than 1 million African children each year.
28 Aug 2023 | Research Triangle International
RTI International has launched an anti-malaria spraying campaign that will treat 155,000 households in Rwanda as part of the President's Malaria Initiative.
14 Aug 2023 | Science Daily
The emerging threat of pesticide resistance means that biological malaria control methods are once again in vogue. New research published in the online open access journal BMC Public Health shows how Nile tilapia, a fish more commonly served up to Kenyan diners, is a valuable weapon against malaria mosquitoes.
Africa Fighting Malaria | 09 Aug 2023 | Medical News Today
A study published by the Public Library of Science (PloS) One found that three out of five DDT-resistant Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of human diseases like dengue and urban yellow fever, avoided huts sprayed with DDT. The chemical's unique spatial repellent action, combined with its moderate irritant and toxic properties, reduced the risk of disease transmission by nearly three-quarters.
MAMA | 13 Jun 2023 | Medical News Today
The newly-formed MAMA Africa (Mobilizing Against Malaria Across Africa) movement calls on G8 leaders to take further action and help stop the needless deaths.
01 Mar 2024 | DNDi
Sanofi-aventis and the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announced today that ASAQ, the new fixed-dose combination of artesunate (AS) and amodiaquine (AQ), will soon be available throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
12 Feb 2024 | CCN Matthews
Researchers at the Toronto General Research Institute and Ontario Cancer Institute have discovered a synthetic compound that targets and kills malaria parasites, including a drug-resistant strain.