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 …
Early, proper and accurate diagnosis plays an important role in case of malaria. Usually malarial diagnosis is done using clinical criteria and/or microscopy. Immunochromatographic tests (ICTs) are now a days widely available and recognized as an alternative method for diagnosis of the malaria. In this study we performed microscopy i. …
Data on insecticide use for vector control are essential for guiding pesticide management systems on judicious and appropriate use, resistance management, and reduction of risks to human health and the environment. The researchers studied the global use and trends of insecticide use for control of vector-borne diseases for the period …
Tripura has been declared ‘malaria prone’ following the detection of 346 positive cases of Plasmodium Falciparum (PF) in the State during the last one month, official sources said on Thursday. Health minister Tapan Chakraborty said that medical experts have advised the State government to use second generation drugs instead of …
With summer just around the corner, fifteen people have already been detected with plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax, the deadliest form of Malaria in Banke district, RSS reports As a result, health authorities concerned are on a high with the disease likely to rise with the onset of monsoon. People …
Malaria is an ancient disease in India. Known as the ‘king of diseases’, malaria was estimated to cause 75 million cases and 0.8 million deaths annually. In epidemic years, morbidity and mortality used to increase 2–3 times. Ravages of malaria were so rampant and devastating, that the economic growth of …
Drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasite poses a great problem for the malaria control programme of any country. The most commonly used antimalarial drugs, viz. chloroquine (CQ) and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) have been rendered ineffective and are replaced by the artesunate-based combination therapy (ACT).
The prevalence of malaria among the residents of the Lake Victoria basin remains high. The environment associated with the lake may maintain a high number of malaria vectors. Lake habitats including water hyacinths have been suspected to be the source of vectors. This study investigated whether malaria vectors breed in …
The objective of this study was to explore the policies for, and implementation of, the community case management (CCM) of childhood illnesses in the 68 countries that were prioritized by the “Countdown to 2015” initiative in 2008.
Stagnant water in the premises of the Government Multi Specialty Hospital, Sector 16 is posing a serious threat to patients admitted to the hospital. While the UT Health department is quick to launch a drive to pull up residents who allow stagnant water as it leads to mosquito breeding, it …
The Health Ministry will set up the National Research Institute on Typhus Fever and Leishmaniasis in Hambantota. Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has already instructed health officials to set up the Institute within the next few months using the resources of Malaria Project which has been abandoned, a Health Ministry spokesman …
About 450 million children will be physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years unless the world takes action to tackle malnutrition, a report from Save the Children warned Wednesday. Every hour, 300 children die due to a lack of nutrients in their diet, while those who survive are …
The objective of this study was to investigate the use of novel surveillance tools in a malaria endemic region where prevalence information is limited. Specifically, online reporting for participatory epidemiology was used to gather information about malaria spread directly from the public. Individuals in India were incentivized to self-report their …
Differences between individual human houses can confound results of studies aimed at evaluating indoor vector control interventions such as insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual insecticide spraying (IRS). Specially designed and standardised experimental huts have historically provided a solution to this challenge, with an added advantage that they can …
Days after a report in the British Medical journal the Lancet indicated malaria mortality almost double than previously estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the international health organisation bounced back claiming that some key findings of the new study do not seem to be based on “strong evidence”. The …
NewDelhi:India may, in a few weeks, officially acknowledge that malaria kills 40 times the current estimate of 1,023 people a year. A 16-member committee set up by the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme to gauge India’s actual malaria death burden has arrived at 40,297 as the average deaths per …
Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults. The findings from the research, which has reanalysed 30 years of data on the disease using new techniques, will force a …
GLOBAL health campaigns like grand goals. On January 30th Bill Gates joined the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), 13 drug-company executives and others in pledging to eradicate or control by 2020 ten of the world’s nastiest diseases, which afflict more than a billion people. Guinea worm, sleeping sickness, …
During the past decade, renewed global and national efforts to combat malaria have led to ambitious goals. The authors aimed to provide an accurate assessment of the levels and time trends in malaria mortality to aid assessment of progress towards these goals and the focusing of future efforts.
The number of malaria deaths worldwide in 2010 was 1.24 million, nearly double the number previously estimated by the 2011 World Malaria Report (WMR). This is despite a 31-per-cent reduction in such deaths globally in the last five years. This was stated in a study published on February 3 in …
New Delhi: Malaria deaths in India could be almost 46 times the official figure issued here. A new study by University of Washington researchers published in Lancet shows that malaria kills 1.2 million people worldwide each year —double the number cited in the World Malaria Report 2011. In India, the …
