New opportunity for rapid treatment of malaria
Researchers have identified a new means to eradicate malaria infections by rapidly killing the blood-borne Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease.
The last decade has seen a successful global effort to reduce the toll of malaria – a deadly, mosquito-borne infectious disease. In the Africa region, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria deaths have been cut by 33 percent in the past decade. Scaling up anti-malaria efforts has saved 800,000 to a million African [...]
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Significant progress has been made in scaling up malaria control efforts and the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), said Africa is better prepared to defeat malaria now than at any other time in history.
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By Chizoba Vivian Ajoku, Africasti Abuja The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH), in its july 2012 edition, published two studies providing an insight on the raging war against malaria. In one of the reviews, researchers support the use of indoor insecticide sprays as an effective way to dramatically reduce malaria infections. In [...]
Continue reading …Malaria has declined significantly over the past ten years worldwide primarily due to an improved quality of life.
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The government said yesterday that the country is on the right path to drastically reduce malaria deaths despite a new global report showing that the disease kills twice as many people as earlier thought. Health and Social Welfare Permanent Secretary Blandina Nyoni told The Citizen on Sunday that malaria was declining in Tanzania following concerted [...]
Continue reading …The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service (GHS) is distributing 11 million Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) free of charge nationwide.
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