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 …
KATHMANDU, JAN 16 - The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) is formulating a national malaria policy in a bid to eradicate the disease from the country by 2020. The policy aims at early detection of malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease, its prompt treatment and increased access to treatment of …
But With 53% Efficacy For 8 Mths, Treatment Still Inadequate For India, Say Experts New Delhi: A malaria vaccine could be a reality by 2015. The most promising candidate now showing that it can protect children for 15 months. The efficacy of the vaccine, whose phase-II trial results have just …
Even as several issues of field testing of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight malaria and dengue are being debated, Oxitec, a British company founded and part-owned by the University of Oxford, carried out the world's first open field trial last year. The trials to test the efficacy of genetically modified …
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS), insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are key components in malaria prevention and control strategy. However, the development of resistance by mosquitoes to insecticides recommended for IRS and/or ITNs/LLINs would affect insecticide-based malaria vector control. We assessed the susceptibility levels of Anopheles arabiensis to …
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS), insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) are key components in malaria prevention and control strategy. However, the development of resistance by mosquitoes to insecticides recommended for IRS and/or ITNs/LLINs would affect insecticide-based malaria vector control. We assessed the susceptibility levels of Anopheles arabiensis to …
In the 1930s, Brigadier Sinton, a highly decorated doctor of the British Indian Army, and a pioneer in the field of malaria control in India, said 'the very problem of survival in India seems to be that of malaria'. Almost 8 decades later, we seem to be no better! At …
A spoonful of genetically modified starch could be a new malaria vaccine if a new strategy that seems to work in mice also performs well in humans. At present there is no efficient vaccine against malaria, which is caused by the plasmodium parasite. Now researchers from two laboratories in France …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Warning that refugees and migrating population could increase the possibility of introducing drug-resistant malaria strains into the non-immune population in India, a review study published in the latest edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases has suggested that best practices for malaria control along the border areas …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday termed international medical journal Lancet's report on malaria deaths in the state as ridiculous. I need to describe the Lancet report as ridiculous in order to dispel misunderstanding among the people, health and family welfare minister Prasanna Acharya said while replying an adjournment motion …
Malaria is in retreat in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa after a huge effort in the last two years to get bed nets and indoor spraying into areas where the disease is endemic, but the gains are fragile, according to the World Health Organisation. Malaria cases or hospital admissions and …
Malaria has been eliminated from over 40 countries with an additional 39 currently planning for, or committed to, elimination. Information on the likely impact of available interventions, and the required time, is urgently needed to help plan resource allocation. Mathematical modelling has been used to investigate the impact of various …
This global annual report covers 106 malaria-endemic countries and highlights continued progress made towards meeting the World Health Assembly (WHA) targets for malaria to be achieved by the end of 2010 and by 2015. Outlines evolving situation of financing for malaria control and how these growing resources have resulted in …
The National Drug Policy on Malaria was first formulated in 1982 and has subsequently been reviewed and revised periodically. The present National Drug Policy for Malaria (2010) has been drafted keeping in view the availability of more effective antimalarial drugs and drug resistance status in the country.
The state government has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to draft a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)which was followed by them to control malaria outbreak in the city. The government proposes to replicate the procedure in other municipalities and corporations in the state. In a meeting conducted by health minister …
Himalayan states like Jammu and Kashmir will for the first time come in the grip of malaria by 2030 while the disease will continue to linger in the Northeast as the country''s temperature is likely to rise between 1.7-2.2 degree Celsius due to climate change. Using the temperature and humidity …
Epidemic declared in Rajnandgaon and Bilaspur districts; 10 dead in Bilaspur BILASPUR: State health officials have confirmed the outbreak of a malaria epidemic in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon and Bilaspur districts. While the neighbouring districts of Durg and Koriya have also reported a spurt in malaria cases, officials have embarked on a …
MALARIAL parasites are known to develop quick resistance to drugs. Two groups of scientists, working independently on alternative drugs for malaria, have identified a couple of compounds that could treat drug-resistant malaria. One team synthesised and evaluated a compound called spiroindolone NITD 609. It is effective against drug resistant strains …
About hundred students of a primary school at a village in Hungund taluk were taken ill today after they were given choloroquin, an anti-malarial drug.At least 30 of the affected students were taken to hospital, official sources said. District Health Official Dr Choudhary said the children, who consumed the drug …
