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In view of the over 1.7 million children and pregnant women constantly at risk of malaria infection in Kaduna State, the government has set for itself a target of totally eradicating the disease by 2015 by offering free treatment and attacking the disease through clean environment.
The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Welcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children still do not have access to this simple protective tool, and remain at risk from the life-threatening disease.
Health ministers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) marked Malaria Day on Friday by spraying houses at Mamfene Village in Northern KwaZulu-Natal with DDT pesticide.
UNICEF, in partnership with the government of Japan, has begun distributing 230,000 insecticide treated mosquito nets in Lango region.
While much of the world managed to eradicate malaria in the mid-20th century, Sub-Saharan Africa did not. Africa bears the greatest burden of malaria both in human and economic costs.
RTI International wants bids for provision of transport for spray operators in Kitgum and Pader districts.
Mr Francis Onojeta, the co-ordinator of the Roll-Back-Malaria Project in Delta State, has appealed to Indian hemp farmers to cultivate Artemisia herb for the production of anti-malarial drugs instead of the narcotic plant.
Scientists hoped to start final tests on the world's most advanced malaria vaccine early next year, they said yesterday.
Health ministers from countries in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) are expected to convene at Mamfene in Mkhanyakude District, Northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday, to mark international Malaria Day.
The media being in the frontline of disseminating information has a big role to play when it comes to fight against the killer diseases, malaria and HIV/Aids in Africa and the world at large.
ANTI-MALARIA drugs are expensive and not widely available in the rural areas of Uganda, particularly outside of government health facilities, a new report says.
Rwanda has been ranked, fourth among the top ten performers in terms of the Global Fund's average grant performance, according to a recently released report by Aidspan, a Nairobi-based independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
WHEN it comes to taking medicine, six-month-old Hazel fights, stiffens her body, tilts her head and kicks, like she is possessed by demons.
Malaria is just one of the killer diseases that continue to haunt the continent of Africa; and it accounts for the highest death toll among children under the age of 5 and pregnant women in Africa.
The Kwara State government says it has put in place a mechanism that will drastically reduce the malaria burden within the next three years in the state. Governor Bukola Saraki stated this on Tuesday during the launching of a health campaign tagged "Malaria-free Kwara" held at Bode Saadu, in Moro Local Government.
The Public Health Services in Cuvelai district, southern Cunene province, recorded a total of 909 new cases of malaria in September this year.
The Federal Executive Council has approved the procurement of essential drugs worth N7 billion for the treatment of malaria and control of HIV/AIDS.
Zimbabwe's AIDS organisations have condemned the government for failing to account for more than US$7 million provided by the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Incidence of malaria in Gambia is reported to have plunged drastically thanks to an array of low-cost strategies, offering the tempting vision of eliminating this disease in parts of Africa. This is according to a study published, on Friday October 31, on the prestigious science journal, The Lancet.
IS THE WORLD COMMITTING EN-ough resources to fight malaria? How serious is the problem anyway?
ACT is the name of the drug combination accepted by doctors worldwide as the most effective antidote to the malarial parasite. Malaria is a disease, which in one of its most extreme stages; affects the brain; "Cerebral malaria" is the most common name for it.
Although malaria remains the highest killer disease in Africa, far more devastating than HIV/AIDS, the scourge, perhaps, has never been deadlier in the northern part of Nigeria than in the last 60 days.
Dr Dayyabu Muhammed is the Director Primary Health Service in Kano State Ministry of Health. He spoke on the increasing incidence of malaria in the state which, he said government is working seriously to combat.
A number of Village Health Teams in Pallisa District have run out of malaria drugs, following the suspension of the use of Homapak.
A new global subsidy to give malaria patients the best treatment may divert money from simpler campaigns and could undermine drug quality--but it looks set to be rubber-stamped by donors without proper assessment.
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