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Malaria

May 2020

  • A community health volunteer conducts a malaria test in a village in Myanmar

    Demand for coronavirus tests raises concerns over HIV and malaria

    Some firms shifting production away from malaria, HIV and TB, which kill millions

April 2020

  • Mosquito nets cover beds at a makeshift medical facility inside a gym in the town of Maasin, in Iloilo province, during a 2019 outbreaak of dengue fever in the Philippines

    Pandemic could 'turn back the clock' 20 years on malaria deaths, warns WHO

  • Homeless People amid coronavirus outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh - 20 Apr 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Md Manik/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (10619690h) A volunteer distributes food to the vulnerable people during the nationwide lockdown. On the initiative of Mr, Mohammad Mazharul Islam Sentu, President of South Kamalapur Jame Mosque, relief food has been distributed at noon every day since March 26. Homeless People amid coronavirus outbreak in Dhaka, Bangladesh - 20 Apr 2020

    'Millions hang by a thread': extreme global hunger compounded by Covid-19

  • Vice-president Constantino Chiwenga visits a Covid-19 isolation facility in Marondera, Zimbabwe, last week.

    Zimbabwe faces malaria outbreak as it locks down to counter coronavirus

  • Narendra Modi and Donald Trump during the US president’s visit to India in February.

    India releases hydroxychloroquine stocks amid pressure from Trump

February 2020

  • Benito Mussolini

    Brief letters
    Talking about Brexit the Mussolini way

    Brief letters: Greece | Brexit language | Philharmonic Dining Rooms | Today programme | Marmalade

December 2019

  • School strike in New York. There was growing awareness of the climate crisis this year

    The Upside weekly report
    The Upside's best things that happened in 2019

    Here are our highlights – tell us yours and we’ll showcase them in next week’s Christmas newsletter

November 2019

  • 25: Around 7pm, as the evening is on its way, it’s time to catch mosquitoes. Before he rapidly sweeps his net through the air, this young man is looking if the mosquitoes have already left their breeding grounds. Rond kwart voor zeven, als de avond valt, is het tijd om muggen te vangen. Voordat hij snel met zijn net heen en weer zwiept, kijkt deze door Target Malaria ingehuurde man of er al genoeg muggen vliegen.

    Wiping out the daughters: Burkina Faso's controversial mosquito experiment

    A radical experiment to genetically modify a strain of mosquito in order to stop them breeding malaria-carrying daughters is one of the latest efforts to tackle the deadly scourge of malaria

September 2019

  • An Aedes mosquito feeding on a human arm.

    The long read
    People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killer

    The long read: These tiny pests adapt so successfully to changing conditions that they have become humankind’s deadliest predator. We might soon be able to eradicate them – but should we?
  • A scene from The Tempest showing Prospero, Miranda and Caliban

    History shows it will take more than technology and money to beat malaria

    Jonathan Kennedy
    Hopes of eradicating the disease by 2050 will fail unless we tackle the poverty and weak governance that allow it to thrive
  • kenya to host malaria conference<br>epa01918112 (FILE) Siama Marjan, 3, plays under a insecticide treated mosquito net, when she should be resting after school at their home in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya on 24 April 2008. Kenya is hosting a malaria conference from 01 to 06 November 2009, dubbed ‘Building Knowledge For Action’. Some 3000 participants from around the globe will attend the conference that aims at pushing for effective methods in combatting the disease. According to Kenyan Public Health and Sanitation Minister Beth Mugo, close to a million people are killed by the disease annually. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON

    Malaria breakthrough as scientists find ‘highly effective’ way to kill parasite

    Drugs derived from Ivermectin, which makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes, could be available within two years

August 2019

  • Nurse treating malaria patient

    'Malaria will not be eradicated in near future', warns WHO

  • Two small children stand in a village on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi

    Burundi malaria outbreak at epidemic levels as half of population infected

July 2019

  • A swarm of flying mosquitoes<br>EX77HJ A swarm of flying mosquitoes

    Drug-resistant malaria parasites 'spreading aggressively' across south-east Asia

  • Anopheles gambiae mosquito feeding

    How Myanmar became an example to the world in the battle against malaria

May 2019

  • Anopheles atroparvus mosquito adult female biting on human for a blood meal<br>AG4A97 Anopheles atroparvus mosquito adult female biting on human for a blood meal

    Mosquito-killing spider juice offers malaria hope

    Scientists have genetically modified a fungus to make it produce the same lethal toxin as is found in the funnel web spider
  • An Anopheles stephensi mosquito seen under a scanning electron microscope

    Argentina and Algeria stamp out malaria in 'historic achievement'

    Improvements in detection, diagnosis and treatment hailed by World Health Organization as ‘a model for other countries’
  • Kenan Malik

    Big pharma can only see the benefit of R&D for wealthy markets

    Kenan Malik
    There is too little incentive for pharmaceutical companies to work on treatments for diseases of low-income countries

April 2019

  • Anopheles atroparvus adult female mosquito bites a human.

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: malaria in the UK – how I set a debate buzzing

  • WHO welcomes the Government of Malawi’s launch of the world’s first malaria vaccine today in a landmark pilot programme. 15. Brian Chimpuku administers the malaria vaccine to a five-month old child, Mkaka Primary School Outreach, Malawi

    Malawi starts landmark pilot of first ever child malaria vaccine

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