Asda to sell own-brand malaria tablets
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/sep/25/asda-to-sell-own-brand-malaria-tablets
Asda is the first UK supermarket to produce and sell its own-brand malaria tablets. The tablets are on sale for £12 for 12 tablets at Asda pharmacies, which according to the supermarket is 50% less than the same drug costs at other pharmacies. The drug ...
Can We Rely on the Private Sector to Halt Malaria in Africa?
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/10/can-we-rely-private-sector-halt-malaria-africa-273623.html
Some were artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTS, quality assured by the World Health Organization (WHO); others were much less effective medicines, unable to counter the drug-resistant malaria parasites that have emerged in recent years. In some ...
Deaths From Malaria, Diarrhea Expected To Soar In Ebola-Hit Countries
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/malaria-deaths-ebola-diarrhea-pneumonia_n_5886652.html
Specialists on deadly diseases say deaths from malaria alone, which even before the Ebola crisis killed around 100,000 a year in the West Africa region as a whole, could increase four-fold in Ebola-hit countries as people miss out on life-saving ...
Waconzy Embarks On Anti-malaria Nationwide Campaign
http://www.spyghana.com/waconzy-embarks-anti-malaria-nationwide-campaign/
In 2013, Waconzy's silver-spoon foundation launched the Waconzy Versus Malaria Zero Tolerance Campaign in Lagos and since then, so many Nigerians have benefited via his campaign. The people of Kalaibiama in rivers state recently benefited from the ...
81% malaria patients self-medicate
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/660116-81-malaria-patients-self-medicate.html
EIGHTY one percent of malaria patients self-medicate, a new study undertaken to estimate the number of patients who attempt to treat themselves using antibiotics before visiting hospital, has revealed. The study shows that 81% of patients diagnosed ...
Ebola is deadly but malaria steals more lives
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/16/ebola-is-deadly-butmalariastealsmorelives.html
A 17-year-old named Ibrahim Abbas came down with a fever in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, and blood tests showed he had malaria. Healthcare providers refused to touch him, fearing he had Ebola. Others simply did not have medical supplies to ...
Among Malaria Parasites, Real Feel for Mosquitoes
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/science/among-malaria-parasites-real-feel-for-mosquitoes.html
Is it possible that malaria parasites circulating in the blood can actually sense that there are mosquitoes around? And that they react by increasing their numbers so the mosquitoes are more likely to carry them to a new host? A new study by French ...
Ebola mission includes risk of malaria for troops
http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140925/NEWS08/309250082/Ebola-mission-includes-risk-malaria-troops
And there is the possibility of contracting other tropical diseases endemic to the region, including malaria, dengue, the Chikungunya virus ? a painful but not fatal disease that causes fever and excruciating joint pain ? and more, said Dr. Remington ...
