The African Union (AU) joins the international community in celebrating the World Malaria Day under the theme Invest in the future. Defeat malaria. [Read More]
Message of the Regional Director, Dr Luis G. Sambo, on the occasion of World Malaria Day 20144/28/2014
Today, 25 April 2014, we commemorate World Malaria Day under the theme "Invest in the future: Defeat malaria." This theme is a rallying call for increased investment to accelerate action to defeat malaria. [Read More]
On World Malaria Day, it is encouraging to note that enhanced global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000. [Read more]
The tide has turned on malaria, with mortality rates for children in Africa down by half, but a stronger surveillance system is urgently needed to prevent new outbreaks and resurgences, United Nations officials today warned, marking the sixth annual World Malaria Day. [Read More]
Nearly a third of antimalarial medicines have failed quality tests due topoor packaging and incorrect levels of the active ingredients over the last 70 years, yet limited monitoring capacity in low-income countries means the problem’s true scale remains unknown, a study finds. [Read More]
While some 80 percent of children around the world, or 110 million infants, are receiving life-saving vaccinations each year, “one in five – more than 22 million children – not being vaccinated is too much for us,” according to the World Health Organization at the start of World Immunization Week 2014. [Read More]
Announcing that more than 50 partners are now on board its partnership initiative to fight against neglected tropical diseases, tuberculosis and malaria, the United Nations intellectual property agency today hailed the watershed achievement as a significant step towards helping more than one billion people overcome such maladies. [Read More]
Cities in developing countries with quality health, housing and water drainage systems, can more easily adapt to a changing climate, says the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. [Read More]
‘Invest in the future. Defeat malaria,’ the theme of World Malaria Day 2013,1 still struck a chord with the outgoing WHO Global Malaria Program Director, Dr Robert Newman, during the release of the latest World Malaria Report on 11 December 20132 in Washington D.C. Dr Newman stated that ‘the greatest threat to continued success in malaria efforts is financial,’ as the community had less than half of the US$5.1 billion needed annually to ensure universal access to life-saving malaria interventions, including long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), indoor residual spraying of households with insecticide (IRS), intermittent preventive chemotherapy for pregnant women (IPTp), rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and arteminisin combination therapies (ACTs). [Read More]
For the first time in Liberia an HIV and AIDS Media Guide has been developed and validated by stakeholders in the national HIV response. [Read More]
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