Cameroon launches malaria vaccination program in global milestone
Reuters The global fight against malaria took a stride forward on Monday as Cameroon launched the world’s first routine vaccine programme against the mosquito-borne disease that is projected to save tens of thousands of children’s lives per year across Africa. Around 40 years in the making, the World Health Organization-approved RTS,S vaccine developed by British […]
World at risk of losing malaria fight as cases rise, report says
Reuters The world is in danger of losing the fight against malaria, as cases of the disease rose by around five million year-on-year in 2022, exceeding global targets to contain it, a new World Health Organization report showed on Thursday. Pandemic-related disruptions and extreme weather events linked to climate change have hindered the fight against […]
Essay: New malaria vaccine no silver bullet but an important step towards eradication
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHELLE BOYLE and BRENDAN CRABB of Australia’s Burnet Institute, look at the latest vaccine to prevent malaria…
WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. “Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. […]
Climate change hitting fight against AIDS, TB and malaria
London, UKReuters Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results […]
Pakistan floods: Disease outbreaks spur calls for crisis plan
IMRAN MUKHTAR, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on disaster within a disaster taking place in Pakistan…
World leaders pledge billions to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria on UN sidelines
United Nations/New York City, US Reuters The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $US14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic. US President Joe Biden, who hosted the conference in New York on the sidelines of […]
Malaria and diseases spreading fast in flood-hit Pakistan
Karachi, PakistanReuters The death toll from malaria and other diseases tearing through Pakistan’s flood-ravaged regions reached 324, authorities said on Wednesday, and actress Angelina Jolie said she feared many people she had met during visits to flood-hit areas this week would “not make it” if more aid did not arrive. Hundreds of thousands of people […]
Children, women prone to diseases in Pakistan’s stagnant flood water
Karachi, PakistanReuters Children and women are becoming more vulnerable as tens of thousands of people suffer from infectious and water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and the death toll from the inundation surpassed 1,500, according to government data and UNICEF on Friday. As flood waters begin to recede, which officials say may take two to six […]
Fight against AIDS, TB and malaria bounced back post-COVID – but not enough
London, UKReuters Efforts to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria began to recover last year after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but the world is still not on track to defeat these killer diseases, according to a report. In its 2022 report, released on Monday, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis […]