A Tale of Two Diseases: Tuberculosis Control and Malaria Eradication in China
http://www.forbes.com/sites/yanzhonghuang/2014/04/18/a-tale-of-two-diseases-tuberculosis-control-and-malaria-eradication-in-china/
What the article failed to note was the important role played by other international agencies such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest international health cooperation program in China. From 2003 to 2013, China has ...
Cause Celeb: Katharine McPhee fights malaria
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/weekend/entertainment/2014/04/17/cause-celeb-katharine-mcphee-supports-a-malaria-free-zone/7831593/
After making a connection with the school's headmaster and hearing of recurrent bouts with malaria among students and teachers, she decided to "continue to help" defeat this treatable disease by joining up with Malaria No More. "One dollar, one life ...
Malaria: is a vaccine the silver bullet?
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/apr/18/world-malaria-day-vaccines-silver-bullet
Malaria control efforts have taken many forms. Notably, bed nets and chemical spraying to ward off infected mosquitoes, and mass distribution of antimalarial drugs to reduce transmission. But with parasite species becoming resistant to the drugs and ...
New studies investigate malaria resistance and susceptibility in children
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/275606.php
According to the World Health Organization, malaria caused approximately 627,000 deaths in 2012, the majority of which were among children. Most malaria-related deaths in children are a result of complications from the disease, but it has been unclear ...
New way to fight malaria found
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140419/lifestyle-health-and-wellbeing/article/new-way-fight-malaria-found
The parasite that causes malaria has developed resistance to chloroquine, but research carried out at the Australian National University (ANU) and Germany's University of Heidelberg has shown that the parasite protein that causes resistance has an ...
Compete to Beat Malaria and Save Lives
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-helfrich/compete-to-beat-malaria-a_b_5168846.html
Every 60 seconds, a child dies from malaria. This isn't an old statistic -- this is reality for thousands of children in sub-Saharan Africa today in 2014. The United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign has been working hard since 2006 to ...
Indigenous malaria vaccine shows promise in mice studies
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/medicine-and-research/indigenous-malaria-vaccine-shows-promise-in-mice-studies/article5918997.ece
Indian scientists experimenting with a novel vaccine candidate against malaria say they have found ?promising results? in mice, with ?80 to 85 per cent efficacy? observed in a dozen animals they recently vaccinated. The new vaccine candidate, created ...
The Big Interview: Malaria survivor from Newton continues battle by fundraising
http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/the-big-interview-malaria-survivor-from-newton-continues-battle-by-fundraising-1-6011061
When Mandy George contracted the most deadly strain of malaria, the doctors did not expect her to survive. The 34-year-old from Newton was helping with the earthquake relief effort in Haiti, when she was suddenley struck down and found herself in ...
