A three-member team from Institute of Topical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany, will commence a research within two weeks to study the causes for increase in malaria cases in the
Household products maker Reckitt Benckiser has pledged support to a fresh nationwide six-year plan to eliminate malaria in Nigeria, estimated to cost N4.13 billion in implementation.
AFRICAN countries are the most affected by the growing global drug resistance to malaria and tuberculosis (TB), a situation, which is compounded by incomplete data due to lack of information and po
the northeastern states of India are co-endemic for Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax malaria. The transmission intensity is low-to-moderate resulting in intermediate to stable malaria. Malaria control prioritized P. falciparum being the predominant and life threatening infection (>70%). P. vivax malaria remained somewhat neglected. The present study provides a status report of P. vivax malaria in the northeastern States of India.
Over a 2-year period, from 2013 to 2014, WHO undertook an initial “country situation analysis” in order to determine the extent to which effective practices and structures to address antimicrobial resistance have been put in place and where gaps remain.