India

 Aerial raid on mosquitoes

Bangladesh is planning to conduct an aerial raid on mosquitoes, which are attacking cities in droves. Larvicide will be sprayed from helicopters on an estimated 20 million insects. The country

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
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Ecology, Health Effects, Malaria, Vector Control, Vector Borne Diseases, Bangladesh, Insects
Water Resources

 The malefactor

Does global warming lead to more malaria in East Africa?

Publication Date: 
30/01/2003
Down to Earth
Tags:
Climate Change, Global Warming, Malaria, Medical Research, Africa, Statistics, Climate
India

 Devil is in the details

A WTO meeting of ministers is hailed as a success

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Neelam Singh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Trade, WTO, Malaria, Health Care, Drugs, Drug Industry, Tuberculosis, AIDS, Imports, Australia, India, Developing Countries
Climate Change

 Folk cures

In Ethiopia, traditional healers can be a good alternative to an inefficient public health system

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Ethiopia
Environment

 African merchandise

Survival is the only business that thrives in an ailing continent

Publication Date: 
14/12/2002
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Tags:
Environment, Malaria, Africa, Statistics, Air Pollution
India

 Sudden surge

Mumbai fails to declare malaria a notifiable disease despite virulent form

Publication Date: 
14/11/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, India, Mumbai
India

 Genes and dreams

Scientists are on the breakthrough of better malaria drugs

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, Medical Research, Drugs, Immunisation, Genetic Cloning, Genetic Engineering, India, Developing Countries, Diseases
India

 Malaria

Breakthroughs in malaria research may well go the way of the other diseases of the poor

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Tags:
Malaria, Medical Research, Drugs, Vaccination, Africa, Developing Countries
India

 Fine print hassles

Chemical manufacturers shaken by India's signing POPs convention

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
Clifford Polycarp
Down to Earth
Tags:
POPs, Pesticides, Chemical Industry, Malaria, DDT, Hazardous Products, Dioxin, Endosulfan, Legislation, India
India

 External threat

Three decades of effective eradication programmes have rid the United Arab Emirates (uae) of the scourge of malaria

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Malaria, United Arab Emirates

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