Scientists identify resistance gene in malaria parasite
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-identify-resistance-gene-in-malaria-parasite-9016484.html
Scientists have identified the changes to the genes of the malaria parasite that make it resistant to one of the last effective drugs against the blood-borne parasite, which kills more than one million people each year, many of them children. Frederic ...
Resistance gene identified in malaria parasite
http://www.nature.com/news/resistance-gene-identified-in-malaria-parasite-1.14404
Mutations in the malaria parasite that underlie its resistance to the potent drug artemisinin have been pinpointed for the first time. By testing for these genetic variants, public-health officials now plan to map malaria strains that are impervious to ...
Halfway to victory over malaria
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/opinion/edlund-malaria-progress/
(CNN) -- Progress against global diseases is typically slow, incremental and hard-won. But there are moments -- such as Wednesday's release of the World Health Organization's World Malaria Report -- when the cumulative effort of dozens of nations ...
Malaria Deaths Drop Drastically; WHO Predicts More Success
http://www.voanews.com/content/malaria-deaths-drop-drastically-who-predicts-more-success/1810240.html
The global effort to curb malaria is succeeding phenomenally, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization. More than three million lives have been saved so far this century with better prevention and better medicines. The ...
Malaria Fight At Risk of Too Few Funders, Not Enough Cash
http://allafrica.com/stories/201312201053.html
Malaria eradication programmes will fail in the face of rising drug resistance without increased funding in malaria research and development (R&D), according to two major reports published this month. Over the next decade, malaria R&D will need as much ...
Pregnant women and malaria
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/malaria-consortium-partner-zone/pregnant-women-malaria
In sub-Saharan Africa alone, over 30 million women each year become pregnant who are at risk of contracting malaria. In areas of both low and high malaria transmission maternal health can suffer due to the differing levels of immunity throughout ...
Shutting the door on Malaria offers new vaccine hope
http://www.gizmag.com/malaria-vaccine-red-cell-ntu/30146/
A new discovery by scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) holds promise for the development of a Malaria vaccine. The result of five years research, the breakthrough is based on the ability to block the invasion of red blood ...
Progress in malaria and future challenges
http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/progress-in-malaria-and-future-challenges/
Global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000, reducing malaria mortality rates by 45% globally, according to the World Malaria Report 2013 published recently by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
