Surveillance and data in Cambodia's move to malaria elimination
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/malaria-consortium-partner-zone/surveillance-data-malaria-cambodia
Despite great progress, Cambodia has much to do in order to achieve its goal of nation-wide malaria elimination by 2025. Surveillance and data systems will play a major role in this effort. Managing a malaria programme involves significant levels of ...
RCAF in Africa; Fears of Drug Resistant Malaria
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-in-africa-fears-of-drug-resistant-malaria-53384/
RCAF in Africa; Fears of Drug Resistant Malaria. By Denise Hruby | March 1, 2014. The 74 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers who departed for a U.N. peacekeeping mission to Mali this week were only the latest batch of troops to bring their ...
Scientists solve malaria mystery
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-solve-malaria-mystery/articleshow/30972162.cms
Malaria is transmitted to people through bites of mosquitoes which have themselves been infected by the Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person. When a mosquito bites an infected person, ...
Belding church plans pancake supper, proceeds to fight malaria
http://www.sentinel-standard.com/article/20140228/NEWS/140228903/1001/NEWS
The Belding United Methodist Church will host a pancake supper Tuesday at the church to raise money to help stamp out malaria. The event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. The church is located at 301 S. Pleasant St. The cost is a free will offering in the ...
Antibiotics Overuse is Price of Success in Africa Malaria Fight
http://www.voanews.com/content/antibiotics-overuse-is-price-of-success-in-africa-malaria-fight-/1859859.html
Until recently, malaria has been so prevalent in many African countries that health workers assumed any child with a fever had it. But after a decade of intensive efforts and billions of dollars of global investment, malaria rates are declining across ...
Jayapura district to be free of malaria by 2026
http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/92942/jayapura-district-to-be-free-of-malaria-by-2026
Sentani, Papua (ANTARA News) - The Jayapura district administration is committed to eliminating malaria in three phases, as part of the "Malaria-Free Jayapura District 2026" program. The first phase is the malaria control intensification program (2010 ...
184 Million Africans at Risk for Malaria
http://www.voanews.com/content/malaria-risk-20feb14/1855382.html
New research shows that after 10 years of intensified campaigns against malaria 184-million people in Africa still live in moderate to high-risk areas. While the number is high, it's down from nearly 220-million in 2000 when anti-malaria efforts began ...
Targeting mosquito breeding sites in the fight against malaria
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/feb/24/mosquito-malaria-control-strategy
However, today, as part of a renewed effort to control malaria in Khartoum, these pipes are being mended. Other potential breeding sites are destroyed on a regular basis. Those that can't be dried are treated with larvicide and this has contributed to ...
