Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone marked a significant step toward malaria prevention this week when the three countries seperately launched large-scale rollouts of the ... Read more »
Liberia is one of 12 African countries which started administering their first anti-malaria vaccine. The government had announced that 88,780 vaccine vials are already available, ... Read more »
Carlos 'Kent' Campbell, a respected public health physician and global health champion who died on February 20, 2024, is being celebrated by colleagues and coworkers for his ... Read more »
Cameroon has initiated the world's first routine vaccine program against malaria, aiming to save numerous children's lives across Africa. Malaria claims the lives of 600,000 ... Read more »
Climate change and its impacts, particularly extreme weather and heatwaves, pose a substantial risk to progress being made to fight malaria, this is according to the 2023 World ... Read more »
The malaria burden is the highest on the African continent, which accounted for approximately 95% of global malaria cases and 96% of related deaths in 2021. With several African ... Read more »
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new, inexpensive malaria vaccine to prevent malaria in children that can be produced on a massive scale, reports Read more »
More people in some of the world's poorest communities will have access to quality health products such as mosquito nets, thanks to a new financial mechanism. The s Read more »
Malaria-carrying mosquitoes will, and are already moving to new habitats as the earth warms up due to climate change. They are expected to breed faster and bite more often. As a ... Read more »
The 194 Member States of the World Health Organization are currently negotiating the first pandemic accord. Acknowledging that the world learned many hard lessons from the Covid-19 ... Read more »
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