India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
Fake and substandard malaria drugs are a growing threat to efforts to beat back the disease, a new study sponsored by the federal government has concluded. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health analyzed 27 sets of tests of antimalaria drugs purchased in Southeast Asia and Africa between 1999 and …
Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius. This is bound to have a deleterious effect on wheat production and will also see a major increase in cases of …
Residents of this colony are forced to defecate on railway tracks, open ground or among bushes, because there are only 40 toilets for 500 houses here! This is the pitiful state of the residents of the locality on the HMT Watch Factory-Jalahalli Road. What may seem like sheer incivility of …
Washington: A collaboration between a scientist and a designer from Africa has resulted in the creation of a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria. The disease is estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent. Though insecticide-treated nets …
The Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors (GPIRM) is a call to action. Through this document, WHO and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership call on governments of malaria-endemic countries, donor organizations, UN agencies, as well as research and industry partners, to implement a five-pillar strategy to tackle …
NALBARI: Keeping in view the malarial deaths that occur in large number during the rainy season, NRHM Nalbari has taken up several innovative measures to make the masses aware about malaria and other vector borne diseases. In order to spread awareness among the villagers, NRHM Nalbari has decided to hold …
India on Wednesday launched its first indigenously manufactured anti-malaria new-age drug Synriam. The drug, produced by Ranbaxy Laboratories, was formally introduced for marketing here. The drug, launched by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in the presence of Science and Technology Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, has been developed by the company in …
The UK’s University of Liverpool has tied up with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to identify areas in India that are at higher risk of malaria outbreaks, following changes in monsoon rainfall patterns. The UK-based university’s School of Environmental Sciences started working on the project in January …
Five countries in southern Africa have joined forces to launch a research centre that will work on combating climate change in the region. South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Namibia signed a declaration on Wednesday to base the initiative in the Namibian capital Windhoek. The Southern African Science Service Centre …
New Delhi: India is stepping up surveillance against importing drug-resistant malaria. The National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) has joined the global Tracking Resistance to Artemisinin (TRAC) study, being spearheaded by the University of Oxford, which will look at parasite clearance time, parasite reduction ratio and the time to achieve …
New Delhi: India has developed a powerful new malaria drug — an alternative to the global drug of choice Artemisinin — that promises to be a major boost to India’s pharmaceutical research. The new drug’s raw materiel is synthetic (derived chemically in the lab) while Artemisinin is derived from a …
In course of a decade, Nepal and four other countries in the South-East Asia Region, namely Bhutan, DPR Korea, Thailand and Sri Lanka have brought down the number of confirmed malaria cases by more than half, WHO said in a statement issued on the occasion of the World Malaria Day, …
After a number mosquito-breeding spots were found in upmarket localities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to spread malaria control awareness in residential localities this monsoon. The civic administration is preparing to put up posters carrying malaria prevention messages in over one lakh residential colonies and apartments. Manisha Mhaiskar, …
Years after a malaria strain increasingly resistant to the most-effective drugs was confirmed from Cambodia in 2006, the artemisinin-resistant malaria has now been found to have spread along the Thailand-Burma border. According to 10-year-long study published in the Lancet medical journal, the containment strategy will have to be reconsidered if …
The spectre of drug-resistant malaria is back on the horizon. In a report published in The Lancet, researchers from the faculty of tropical medicine, Mahidol University Bangkok, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford and the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network have reported cases of malaria that are resistant to artemisinin …
New Delhi: Malaria that is resistant to the drug of choice — Artemisinin, has now emerged along the Thailand-Myanmar border — 800km westward from where it was first confirmed in Cambodia in 2006. Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACT) kills malaria parasite in a human bloodstream within 24 to 36 hours. With …
The Sri Lankan government Wednesday launched a public health program to alleviate the malnutrition in the country and control the no-communicable diseases among the country's population. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa launching the "Mihi Meth Suwa Sara" program at the Temple Trees today said the government targets to build a …
