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Malaria

June 2015

  • A child is given an injection as part of a malaria vaccine trial

    Millennium development goals: the final countdown
    Kenya's net gains on malaria prevention threatened by climate change

    Global warming poses a significant threat to the bednet-driven fall in malaria deaths in Kenya since the millennium development goals were introduced
  • Malaria is causing 35% of the infantile deaths in Madagascar

    Millennium development goals: the final countdown
    Millennium development goal 6: 15 achievements on HIV and malaria

    More than 3m deaths from malaria and 22m from TB have been averted, and about 13 million people are on antiretroviral therapy to combat HIV
    • Millennium development goals: the final countdown
      What is the millennium development goal on HIV and malaria all about?

    • New anti-malarial treatment provides hope in battle against drug resistance

    • Weatherwatch
      Meteorology outwits malaria

May 2015

  • Children playing in Kisumu, Kenya

    Malaria: can we eradicate one of the world's deadliest diseases?

  • Central African Republic healthcare clinic

    Central African Republic facing chronic healthcare crisis as scars of conflict abide

April 2015

  • Tulu Bolo hospital, 60km south of Addis Ababa.

    'When people come with severe malaria, it is like a race against time'

  • malaria mosquitoes

    World malaria day – quiz

  • Three babies with severe malaria receive a blood transfusion in the Siaya hospital in western Kenya.

    Malaria vaccine a breakthrough despite being partially effective, say scientists

  • The level of the chemicals increases with the severity of the mosquito-borne infection and disappears after cure.

    Malaria could be diagnosed through breath test, Australian scientists find

  • Environment blog
    Why I took part in a human 'oil slick' to protest about Wellcome's investments

  • Experience
    Experience: my anti-malaria drugs made me psychotic

March 2015

  • Malaria, carried by mosquitos, has periodically developed resistance to drugs.

    Malaria antibodies discovery brings vaccine closer to reality, say researchers

    International team of biomedical scientists take a major step towards a vaccine that could help prevent the 600,000 deaths malaria causes every year
  • A view shows the north office building of the newly opened $500 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation campus in Seattle, Washington June 2, 2011. The Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic foundation in the world, supports work in more than 100 countries in areas of health, development, and education.

    Keep it in the ground
    What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

    The $43.5bn philanthropic trust is committed to the eradication of malaria and polio, and controlling the spread of tuberculosis and HIV

  • Professor Tom Solomon

    Meet the man leading Britain's fight against Ebola

    From his lab in Liverpool, Professor Tom Solomon is heading UK efforts to combat Ebola. He’s hopeful we’ll have a treatment and vaccine within a year. But that’s only the beginning of our worries…

February 2015

  • Malaria, carried by mosquitos, has periodically developed resistance to drugs.

    Drug-resistant malaria threatens to spread from Burma, say researchers

    Oxford scientists warn parasite impervious to the key drug artemsinin has been found in testing near Indian border and could emerge in Africa

January 2015

  • medication

    Ebola kills far fewer than Aids, TB and malaria. What should we prioritise?

    Bjorn Lomborg
  • Mosquito

    Business and the sustainable development goals
    Business and development: the top five stories of 2014

December 2014

  • A Nigerian schoolgirl is vaccinated against polio

    Seven breakthroughs that will transform global health

    Which seven pressure points should the global health community focus on to save millions of lives?
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