Disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, according to the annual World Malaria Report released this evening by the World Health Organization (WHO). Using a new methodology that analyses the causes of death for children under the age of five across all diseases*,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the first-ever vaccine to prevent malaria, as it moves to save the lives of tens of thousands of children in Africa, where the disease remains endemic. Malaria, one of the oldest known and deadliest infectious diseases kills about half a million people each year, nearly all of them…
A new drug, Ganaplacide can clear malaria infection including strains that are resistant to the currently commonly used Artemisinin- based Therapies -ACTs, a new study done in seven malaria endemic countries including Uganda has shown. According to a statement by Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures the widely used antimalarial drug Coartem, the new…