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 …
CUTTACK: Mosquito menace in the millennium city refuses to go, the harsh summer this year notwithstanding. The density of mosquitoes has been unusually high across the city despite the fact that the hot and dry conditions cause a substantial depletion in their population. A joint survey, carried out by the …
Pune With the city having buckled under a volley of diseases during the last monsoon, particularly swine flu, the civic authorities are keeping their fingers crossed. While the health department registered a total of 240 swine flu deaths, officials at National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune Municipal Corporation and Sassoon …
The Health Ministry has pledged to eradicate Malaria completely by 2014. Last year there had been five hundred cases. The spokesman for the Ministry said yesterday that from the beginning of January to date, there had been only fifty patients diagnosed with malaria. Despite it being almost extinct in the …
The possible links between climate change and health form one of the most controversial topics of our time. In this interview, Dr Colin Summerhayes talks about how the world
Dar es Salaam has an extensive drain network, mostly with inadequate water flow, blocked by waste, causing flooding after rainfall. The presence of Anopheles and Culex larvae is common, which is likely to impact the transmission of lymphatic filariasis and malaria by the resulting adult mosquito populations. However, the importance …
Malaria killed at least 167 people and attacked 55984 in eight upazilas of Khagrachhari hill district in the last four years. It was revealed at a roundtable discussion jointly organised by civil surgeon's office, Khagrachhari press club and non-government organisation Brac. Held at the conference hall of Khagrachhari Hill District …
A comparison of a recently published evidence-based map of the distribution of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite with data from 1900, before the introduction of major malaria control measures, suggests that concerns that rising temperatures are a threat to malaria control efforts are misplaced. During a century when increases in …
Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum is a disease that is responsible for 880,000 deaths per year worldwide. Vaccine development has proved difficult and resistance has emerged for most antimalarial drugs. To discover new antimalarial chemotypes, we have used a phenotypic forward chemical genetic approach to assay 309,474 chemicals. Here we …
There are still nearly 250 million malaria cases reported annually, over 800,000 fatal, with most deaths being children under 5. The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is notoriously adept at developing drug resistance, and new drugs are urgently needed. Two reports raise hopes that alternatives to artemisinins might be found, by …
There are still nearly 250 million malaria cases reported annually, over 800,000 fatal, with most deaths being children under 5. The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is notoriously adept at developing drug resistance, and new drugs are urgently needed. Two reports raise hopes that alternatives to artemisinins might be found, by …
PESHAWAR, May 12: People in 14 districts of the province are at high risk of malaria and need urgent measures to be saved from the mosquito-borne disease. Dr Mohammad Salim Khan, deputy director of the Malaria Control Programme, made this call at a one-day workshop held at the Provincial Health …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The rising incidence of malaria in the coastal belt of Thiruvananthapuram district has raised serious concern as many cases detected are being `import cases
Many international statements have urged researchers, policy-makers and health care providers to collaborate in efforts to bridge the gaps between research, policy and practice in low- and middle-income countries. We surveyed researchers in 10 countries about their involvement in such efforts. The authors surveyed 308 researchers who conducted research on …
Gaps continue to exist between research-based evidence and clinical practice. We surveyed health care pro viders in 10 low- and middle-income countries about their use of research-based evidence and examined factors that may facilitate or impede such use. The authors surveyed 1499 health care providers practising in one of four …
There has been increased interest in the possible impact of climate change on human health, particularly as it relates to the transmission of environmentally sensitive diseases such as malaria. Parham and Michael investigated the role that process-based mathematical models can play in providing strategic insights on the effects of climate …
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is collecting blood samples of labourers working at Commonwealth Games sites to screen them for malaria.
Builders across Goa have been found wanting in the vector-borne disease control programme of the Directorate of Health Services taking into account the fact that 85 per cent cases of malaria are reported from project areas (construction sites) where migrant (or construction) labourers work and reside. In an observation made …
Five districts have reported an outbreak of malaria recently, in Karnataka. Although the State is doing quite well in terms of implementing the Central Government's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), malaria cases have been reported every year from endemic pockets. Of late, Bijapur has reported 436 cases, Bagalkot …
Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) has called for a greater collaboration among government agencies to combat malaria. In a press note issued here, the GOACAN has said that there is a need for greater collaboration amongst government departments and corporations to combat malaria and other vector borne diseases …
