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Malaria

November 2015

  • Original Title: A.steph_982sRGB_8<br>An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. A known malarial vector, the species can found from Egypt all the way to China. 2004 Dr. William Collins Here, an <i>Anopheles stephensi</i> mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled at the tip of this <i>A. stephensi</i> mosquito after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China.

    'Anti-malarial mosquitoes' created using controversial genetic technology

    Scientists aim to tackle malaria by creating insects unable to spread the parasite, but caution urged over unpredictable ecological consequences
  • Patients at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Central African Republic

    UK sets up £1bn fund to combat malaria and other infectious diseases

    The fund, created in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is part of ‘a fundamental restructuring of Britain’s aid budget’
  • Indonesian workers load rice on a truck at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 14 November. Indonesia will import about 1.5m tonnes of rice from Vietnam due the impact of El Niño.

    El Niño: food shortages, floods, disease and droughts set to put millions at risk

    Agencies warn of unchartered territory as strongest-ever El Niño threatens to batter vulnerable countries with extreme weather for months

October 2015

  • Dr Tu Youyou

    Nobel prize winners point the way in battle against diseases of poverty

    John Reeder, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho, Bernard Pécoul and David Reddy
    A globally coordinated response is needed to ensure new treatments, like those devised by the Nobel medicine prize winners, reach all patients
  • A mother holds her baby as she receives a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial at the Walter Reed Project Research Center in Kombewa in Western Kenya, October 30, 2009. In a statement published on Friday, July 24, 2015, the European Medicines Agency is recommending that the world’s leading malaria vaccine be licensed even though it is only about 30 percent effective and that protection fades over time. The vaccine, known as Mosquirix and made by GlaxoSmithKline, protects only about one-third of children though it might help protect some kids from getting the parasitic disease.

    World Health Organisation right to be wary about first malaria vaccine

    Seth Berkley and Mark Dybul
    Mosquirix passed tough regulatory hurdles but, with question marks over the effectiveness of the drug and the large doses it requires, caution is warranted

    • Cambodia's battle against malaria put at risk as expenses row holds up funds

    • William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Tu Youyou win Nobel prize in medicine

    • UN camp in South Sudan: 'There were far too many little bodies in that morgue'

September 2015

  • A small child plays under an insecticide-treated mosquito net in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya

    Scientists identify genes reducing risk of severe malaria by 40%

  • Villagers look at new mosquito nets given to them by members of the Roll Back Malaria Expedition, Matongo,, Zambia, 23 April 2008. The Roll Back Malaria Expedition is traveling down the Zambezi River from it’s source in Angola so as to hand out malaria nets and educational talks to villagers along the river banks. World Malaria Day will be marked on Friday 25 April.

    Malaria deaths cut by 60% since 2000 but UN says $6bn a year boost needed

August 2015

  • A box of lariam (Mefloquine) antimalarial tablets<br>C0TY9D A box of lariam (Mefloquine) antimalarial tablets

    Antimalarial drug Lariam should not be given to UK troops, Tory MP says

  • A jumping spider in east Africa, Evarcha culicivora, devouring a mosquito.

    Guardian development network
    Mosquito-eating vampire spider could be recruited for war on malaria

July 2015

  • Betty Acao, a newly trained community vaccinator, helps conducts an immunisation programme.

    Development 2030
    'Profitability is sustainability': 17 ideas on business and development

  • Scanning electron micrograph of a female mosquito Anopheles sp a known malaria carrier mag 2x at 24 x 36 mm Note the prominent antennae maxillary palps and proboscis<br>AFP819 Scanning electron micrograph of a female mosquito Anopheles sp a known malaria carrier mag 2x at 24 x 36 mm Note the prominent antennae maxillary palps and proboscis

    First malaria vaccine given green light by European regulators

  • The world’s first malaria vaccine goes before the European Medicines Agency on Friday for approval.

    First malaria vaccine expected to be approved by European regulators

  • A man with suspected malaria waits to be tested by lab technicians in Derberk, Ethiopia in May 2015.

    Here's how to wipe malaria off the map

    James Whiting

  • UN: 15-year push ends extreme poverty for a billion people

  • Higher education in Africa
    Higher Education in Africa: Our continent needs science, not aid

    Kelly Chibale in Cape Town

June 2015

  • Anopheles Stephensi, Sem

    Lab-grown blood, artificial organs – the science transforming our health

  • A microscopic image of the malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito.

    Thousands of Guinea malaria cases go untreated amid Ebola fears

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