http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/1965 en_GB_uk http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/160125/1/1965 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/160121/1/1965 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. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/159354/1/1965 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. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/155761/1/1965 http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/155650/1/1965 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. http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71793 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 http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/143828/1/1965 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. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/140453/1/1965 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. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/135494/1/1965 Getting insecticide-treated bednets to those who need them is just the first step. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/132261/1/1965 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 http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/130386/1/1965 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70475 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70161 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/70036 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69959 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.