Full Coverage: Malaria

25.04.2008 On World Malaria Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to announce a global initiative to fight against the vector-borne disease that kills a million people around the world every year. In India, malaria is spreading to newer areas owing largely to a changing climate.

25.04.2008 Today, on World Malaria Day, 3,000 children will die of malaria. This year, it will kill more than one million people. When faced with such disastrous statistics, it can be easy for us to feel overwhelmed – to see malaria as another problem that is too big and too complex. The reality is different: malaria is 100 per cent preventable. But action must be taken before the mosquito bites.

02.04.2008 The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis & Malaria (GFATM) has launched its Round 8 funding to scale up health systems across the world. The India – Country Coordinating Mechanism for the GFATM invites proposals from government agencies, civil society networks and private sector for receiving grants.

30.11.2007

28.11.2007 A new report by Oxfam says that more than 85% people in the world have no access to medicines due to high pricing. Developing medicines only for the rich is a bad business strategy, as also the scant interest shown by pharmaceutical companies in research and development of medicines for diseases that affect the poor in developing countries, says the report.

20.07.2007 This year, on Africa Malaria Day,Roy Innis, national
chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, writes an informative and provocative commentary on the dreaded but useful eradicator of malaria-DDT.

Every year, over 400 million African mothers, fathers and children are stricken by acute malaria. That's as many victims as there are people in the United States and Mexico combined.

Fevers, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, delirium and
unconsciousness leave them unable to work, cultivate
fields, attend school or care for their families,for weeks on end. Many are permanently brain damaged. Nearly 1 million die.

No wonder sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most
impoverished regions on Earth.

Every year, Africa Malaria Day (April 25) is marked by promises to bring malaria under control. But every year calls for action turn out to be mere bombast, as healthcare agencies refuse to go beyond bed nets and "capacity building," radical greens continue to obstruct proven strategies, and disease and death rates climb.

14.12.2006 An international fund said on Wednesday it had greatly expanded malaria prevention and treatment efforts this year that have helped beat back the disease in pockets of Africa, but much more needs to be done.

06.10.2006 The United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is expected to approve requests from almost 100 countries for $950 million over two years to support programmes to combat the global scourges that kill over 6 million people annually.

04.07.2006 Getting insecticide-treated bednets to those who need them is just the first step.

05.05.2006

BATTLING THE DISEASE: Malaria patients at the Civil Hospital in North Lakhimpur

Death toll in the State could be 500, say health officials
In the absence of blood slide test, official figure is low
Civil hospital is chock-a-block

05.04.2006 The Indian government has formed the National Council on AIDS to mainstream HIV/AIDS into the ongoing activities and programmes of all government departments. It also plans to formulate new policies and strategies with ecological safeguards to take on dengue and malaria.

16.02.2006 Simple, inexpensive and community based solutions are yielding big rewards in a country with the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. Programs that focus on local participation, education and integrated approaches to improving healthcare are giving people the tools needed to treat and prevent the biggest killers: malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

30.01.2006 At the World Economic Forum Meeting on Wednesday, Bono unveiled plans for a new brand of products known as Product Red. With companies including American Express, Converse, Giorgio Armani, and Gap on board, profits will go directly to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

20.01.2006 The World Health Organization has asked pharmaceutical companies to end the marketing and sale of “single-drug” artemisinin malaria medicines, in order to prevent resistance developing to the drug.
* WHO warning angers pharmaceutical bosses

17.01.2006 Children at risk of malaria are more likely to die of the disease if they are given dietary supplements of iron and folic acid, according to a new study.

02.11.2005 Kathmandu: Large chunk of a fund of over $11 million pledged by the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is on the verge of freezing if the agencies concerned do not enhance their capacity in their fight against the dreaded disease

06.10.2005 All the commitments made by both donors and African countries to lift the continent out of poverty will be consolidated into one action plan and monitored on an annual basis, the Department for International Development announced.

23.09.2005 A new process will allow mosquito nets to be treated with insecticide en masse in the factory, keeping the nets effective against malaria for over 20 washes. Most importantly, the process can be reproduced by other companies that make long-lasting insecticide treated nets, which are in short supply in Africa.

03.08.2005 The devastating Tsunami of December 2004 has created new breeding grounds for a malarial mosquito by flooding fields in the Andaman Islands with saltwater, say researchers.

30.06.2005 At a Beijing meeting last week, UN special advisor Jeffrey Sachs asked China to take the lead in the fight against malaria. By cultivating a shrub that produces an anti–malarial medicine, China could make major contributions to reduce global poverty and meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.