7 Facts You Need to Know About World Malaria Day
http://mashable.com/2014/04/25/world-malaria-day-2014/
Friday marks World Malaria Day, an annual awareness campaign to shed light on the preventable and curable disease that still kills hundreds of thousands every year. This year's World Malaria Day continues the theme "Invest in the future, defeat malaria ...
Malaria Control in Emergencies: Time for Action
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2014/04/25/malaria-control-emergencies-time-action/
The population is not immunologically naive to malaria: the disease is endemic in the parts of South Sudan where they come from. Still, over one-third of camp residents are children under 5, the group most vulnerable to severe malaria?especially the 7 ...
How a Water Project is helping Fight Malaria in the Senegal River Basin
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/04/24/how-a-water-project-is-helping-fight-malaria-in-the-senegal-river-basin
While improving water management and food security in Africa's Sahel region, the Senegal River Basin Project is also helping prevent malaria and other dreaded diseases. As a result of Phase I of the project, 3.1 million long-lasting insecticide-treated ...
Injecting hope into the fight against malaria
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/04/africa-malaria-drugs-injectable-artesunate-vaccine-201442010640625705.html
The baby was rushed to a hospital in southeastern Nigeria in January, slipping in and out of consciousness, and diagnosed with severe malaria. " I thought I was going to lose him forever," said Daniel ' s mother Eme Obok, recalling how she watched ...
World Malaria Day 2014: Unplanned construction work leading to malaria increase
http://health.india.com/diseases-conditions/world-malaria-day-2014-unplanned-construction-work-leading-to-malaria-increase/
Unplanned construction activities, setting up of new industries and increased migration were leading to an upsurge in malaria cases in urban India, health experts have said. 'Increased construction activities and industrialization without proper ...
On World Malaria Day, UN officials push for near zero preventable deaths
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47651
25 April 2014 ? 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 ...
Top 10 Reasons to Believe Malaria Can Be Defeated in Our Lifetime
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ray-chambers/top-10-reasons-to-believe_b_5212674.html
In 2008, the malaria community came together to celebrate the first World Malaria Day and redouble global efforts to fight one of the world's oldest diseases, which at that time killed one million children a year. The progress made in the six years ...
Lives depend on it: Fighting malaria in Chad
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/chad_73218.html
Concentrated efforts to fight malaria in Chad mean the disease is facing powerful adversaries: mosquito nets and the dedicated health volunteers who teach communities how to use them. KELO, Chad, 25 April 2014 ? In the dry and dusty district of Kelo, ...
