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 Malaria
mosquitoes' secret revealed - mutation study uncovers
key to insecticide resistance. A new study suggests
a single genetic mutation could explain why disease- carrying
mosquitoes become resistant to a major class of insecticides
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 The theme of this year's Africa Malaria Day is "Unite Against Malaria". Under the slogan "Together We Can Beat Malaria", this year's event will highlight the importance of partnerships in the fight against malaria. This year marks the halfway point between 2000 - the year of the African Summit on Malaria in Abuja, Nigeria - and 2010, the year by which 44 African leaders at the Summit pledged to halve the burden of malaria in Africa.
In 2003 Roll Back Malaria,
Protect Women and Children The theme for this year's event is:'Insecticide Treated Nets and effective malaria treatment for pregnant women and young children by 2005'
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 Decoding
the genomes of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum,
& the mosquito which transmits it, Anopheles gambiae
nature: malaria special
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 Malaria
is by far the world's most important tropical parasitic
disease, and kills more people than any other communicable
disease except tuberculosis. It is caused by a parasite
plasmodium and is transmitted by the mosquito. In 1997
according to the WHO, malaria was the greatest
single killer in Africa. It exacts an enormous
toll in lives, in medical costs, and in days of labour
lost. It is estimated that malaria has cost Africa $100
billion dollars over the last 30 years. And yet Malaria
is a curable disease if promptly diagnosed and adequately
treated while prevention methods are relatively cheap
and simple.
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 Malaria
No longer the forgotten epidemic Malaria
scourge of the ages, once believed to be caused by “bad
air” from swamps and marshland is still haunting us. For
a long, long time there has been little good news to report
in the fight against the disease. Malaria eradication
and control programmes have come and gone but the disease
has not only remained, it has been undergoing a dramatic
resurgence in recent years.
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Clouded
in obfuscation, confusion, ignorance, myth or reality?
Demystifying the figures. Is it true that half of
Botswana is infected with HIV? Is the population of Africa
shrinking as a result the AIDS epidemic? With all the
wars in Africa is AIDS really the biggest killer of Africans?
Is AIDS a bigger killer than Malaria?
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Tanzanian
study shows good results on Children
The World Health Organization Friday welcomed a Tanzanian
study that found rates of malaria and anemia are severely
reduced when infants receive an anti-malarial drug during
routine immunizations.
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Clinical
trials to start in The Gambia
The first of a series of three clinical trials of a vaccine
against malaria, which has been planned through a partnership
between a US-based non-profit organisation and one of
the leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare
companies, begins early next month in The Gambia. If
successful, it would help save the lives of millions of
children. Malaria is a parasitic infection transmitted
through the bite of the Anopheles mosquito.
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Malaria,
one of the world's most important public health concerns,
is on the rise again, causing over a million deaths
a year, including an estimated 700,000 children. According
to the WHO, in absolute numbers, malaria kills 3,000
children under 5 years old, every day a death toll comparable
to that of AIDS. Effective malaria control programs
have led to dramatic declines in death in some countries,
but obstacles remain in many of the world's poorest
countries
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