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Malaria News : Malaria rates drop in the Americas, but travelers still worry
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:23:14 GMT
MIAMI--Malaria continues to be a global scourge, sickening some 300 million to 500 million people annually. Most of the resulting one million to three million malaria deaths occur in regions where it is highly endemic, such as sub-Saharan Africa and parts of south Asia.  [More]

Malaria News : Temperature rise spreads malaria, scientists insist
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:08 GMT
A rise in temperature leads to the spread of malaria, according to a review of conflicting studies.

Malaria News : WHO's Updated Malaria Guidelines Include Rapid Diagnosis, New ACT
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:26 GMT
The WHO on Tuesday released new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which recommend parasitological testing before treatment begins and add a new artemisinin based combination treatment [ACT] to the list of prescribed drugs, BMJ News reports. According to BMJ News, WHO's guidelines are expected to enhance earlier and accurate diagnosis, halt the emergence of drug resistance, and reduce ...

WHO unveils anti-malaria measures
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:52:49 GMT
WHO has unveiled landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs.

WHO unveils anti-malaria measures
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:35:13 GMT
The World Health Organisation has unveiled landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs.

WHO issues new guidelines for malaria treatment
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:38:05 GMT
The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, and the first ever guidance on procuring safe and efficacious anti-malarial medicines.

WHO's updated malaria guidelines include rapid diagnosis, new ACT
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:14 GMT
The WHO on Tuesday released new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, which recommend parasitological testing before treatment begins and add a new artemisinin based combination treatment [ACT] to the list of prescribed drugs, BMJ News reports.

Financial Incentives to Quit Smoking, Patient Voices and Research Into Malaria in Young Children Scoop Prizes in the ...
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:16 GMT
LONDON, March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A campaign of financial incentives to help quit smoking; a project to help change attitudes of doctors to patients; and research into the prevention of death from severe malaria in children scooped three of the top prizes at the second international BMJ Group Awards ceremony held tonight. The winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Professor ...

WHO Releases New Guidelines for Malaria Treatment
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:16:02 GMT
World Health Organisa-tion (WHO) has issued new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, and the first ever guidance on procuring safe and efficacious anti-malarial medicines.

WHO Releases New Malaria Guidelines For Treatment And Procurement Of Medicines
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:29:56 GMT
The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, and the first ever guidance on procuring safe and efficacious anti-malarial medicines. In recent years a new type of treatment called artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACTs) has transformed the treatment of malaria, but if not used properly the medicine could become ineffective. Guidelines ...

Cambodia drug-resistant malaria stirs health fears
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:57:43 GMT
PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available.

WHO unveils landmark anti-malaria measures
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:59:19 GMT
The World Health Organisation unveiled Tuesday landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs, which is threatening attempts to stifle some 250 million cases a year of the disease.

WHO RELEASES NEW MALARIA GUIDELINES FOR TREATMENT AND PROCUREMENT OF MEDICINES
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:02:49 GMT
The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing new guidelines for the treatment of malaria, and the first ever guidance on procuring safe and efficacious anti-malarial medicines. In recent years a

Angola : U.S. Spends Over a Million in Malaria Combat
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:49:04 GMT
Malanje — The United States of America spends at least one million US Dollars a year in the fight against malaria, under the Roll Back Malaria programme launched a few years ago.

Opinions: Don't Slow Fight Against HIV, TB, Malaria; U.S. Focus On Women, Girls
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:16:06 GMT
2010 To Be 'Decisive Year' For Global Health, Global Fund Director Says In a BusinessDay opinion piece, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Michel Kazatchkine reflects on the organization's progress and impact on global health outcomes since its creation in 2002, as detailed in the organizations' 2010 annual report. Kazatchkine writes, 2010 will be a ...

UN issues first guidelines on procuring safe malaria medicines
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:08:20 GMT
New York, Mar 10 : The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has issued new guidelines for malaria treatment, marking the first time the agency has released guidance on procuring safe and effective medicines to treat the disease.

Malaria In Pregnant Women : A First Step Towards A New Vaccine
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:32:47 GMT
By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria. Their work was published in the journal PNAS. In ...

Financial Incentives to Quit Smoking, Patient Voices and Research Into Malaria in Young Children Scoop Prizes in the ...
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMT
A campaign of financial incentives to help quit smoking; a project to help change attitudes of doctors to patients; and research into the prevention of death from severe malaria in children scooped three of the top prizes at the second international BMJ Group Awards ceremony held tonight.

WHO releases new malaria treatment guidelines
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:11:53 GMT
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation released new malaria treatment and procurement guidelines recommending the use of diagnostic tests and a new artemisinin-based combination therapy as new treatmen...

Researchers take first step in development of vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:52:23 GMT
By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria.

WHO releases new malaria treatment guidelines
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:34:16 GMT
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation released new malaria treatment and procurement guidelines recommending the use of diagnostic tests and a new artemisinin-based combination therapy as new treatments, reports China's Xinhua news agency.

WHO Releases New Malaria Treatment Guidelines
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:03:19 GMT
It is time to move away from the idea that everyone with a fever is suspected to have malaria, said Robert Newman, director of the WHO global malaria programme.

WHO releases new malaria treatment guidelines
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:12:02 GMT
The World Health Organization released new malaria treatment and procurement guidelines on Tuesday. The guidelines recommended the use of diagnostic tests and a new artemisinin-based combination therapy as new treatments. It is time to move away from the idea that everyone with a fever is suspected to have malaria, said Robert Newman, director of the WHO global malaria program. Everyone ...

Opinions: Don't slow fight against HIV, TB, malaria; U.S. focus on women, girls
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:53:13 GMT
In a BusinessDay opinion piece, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Michel Kazatchkine reflects on the organization's progress and impact on global health outcomes since its creation in 2002, as detailed in the organizations' 2010 annual report. Kazatchkine writes, 2010 will be a decisive year; the world will be reviewing progress on the millennium ...

Gowon Tasks Govts on Malaria
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:15:11 GMT
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has challenged government at all levels to take pro-active measures in the fight against malaria.Gowon made the call yesterday in Sokoto, at a draft agenda for the North-west zonal monitoring and evaluation stakeholders’ workshop, organised by Yakubu Gowon Centre.

Guidelines On Procuring Safe Malaria Medicines
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:26:35 GMT
New York, Mar 9 2010 11:10AM The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new guidelines for malaria treatment, marking the first time the agency has released guidance on procuring safe and effective medicines to treat the disease.

Malaria in pregnant women: Step towards a new vaccine
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:24:19 GMT
By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by deciphering its molecular mechanisms, a team of researchers has taken an important first step in the development of a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria.

NEWS SCAN: New malaria guidelines, food additive safety, Supreme Court takes vaccine case
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:23 GMT
WHO stresses testing in revised malaria guidelines The World Health Organization today released new guidelines on malaria treatment that emphasize testing to target treatment properly and limit drug resistance.

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat: Global Fund
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:55:30 GMT
Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday.

Cambodia drug-resistant malaria stirs health fears
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:46:16 GMT
By Thin Lei Win

Bill Clinton, Bill Gates unite in foreign aid plea
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:31:40 GMT
Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations.

Barrier in mosquito midgut protects invading pathogens
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:03:06 GMT
Scientists studying the Anopheles gambiae mosquito - the main vector of malaria - have found that when the mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested blood. The formation of this protein barrier, the researchers found, is part of the normal digestive process that allows so-called healthy or commensal gut bacteria ...

Ghana Football Association committed to the fight against - President
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:20:01 GMT
Accra, March 11, GNA - President of the Ghana Football Association, (GFA) Kwasi Nyantakyi has pledged the commitment of the FA towards the fight against malaria in the country.

Clinton, Gates say US help abroad improves image
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:36:04 GMT
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates said Wednesday that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving America's image abroad.

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat: Global Fund
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:41:41 GMT
Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday. The elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- is within reach by 2015, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said. And ...

NIAID Media Availabilty
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:53 GMT
Scientists studying the Anopheles gambiae mosquito — the main vector of malaria — have found that when the mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested blood.

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat - Global Fund
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:44:42 GMT
Source: Reuters * Killer diseases retreating in face of health financing * Global Fund seeks more billions to fight AIDS, TB, malaria By Jonathan Lynn GENEVA, March 8 (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated ...

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat - Global Fund
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:02:52 GMT
GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organisation that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday.

Dancing Around Death, With Elephant in Room
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:08:42 GMT
Layne Staley, the late front man for Alice in Chains, was not mentioned onstage during the band’s performance at Terminal 5 on Tuesday, but his absence was central.

Mummy of Egypt's monotheist pharaoh to return home
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:09:24 GMT
The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt's enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten's mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history's first attempt at monotheism.

Drugmakers agree on landmark vaccines deal for poor
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:19:26 GMT
Several drug firms have agreed on a landmark deal to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations, according to the global immunization alliance that is overseeing the deal.

Report: 5 mil. lives saved through AIDS, Malaria, TB treatment since 2002
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:12:17 GMT
By Lisa Schlein The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reports nearly 5 million lives have been saved since 2002 through programs it has supported for the treatment of these three killer diseases. A new report shows the fund's multi-billion dollar investment is paying big dividends in improving the health of millions of people in developing countries. Since its creation in 2002 ...

Relevant Links
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:19:57 GMT
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest malaria infection rate, killing at least one million people each year. It is also the region with the highest number of HIV patients.

Kidnapping raises risks for aid workers in Haiti
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:05:34 GMT
The first kidnappings of aid workers in Haiti jolted the thousands-strong foreign relief operation in the quake-torn nation Thursday, adding to the staggering challenges it faces two months after the country's deadly disaster.

'TB cases can be halved by 2015, malaria wiped out in decade'
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:36:12 GMT
Cases of tuberculosis (TB) could be halved by 2015 and malaria eliminated within a decade in many countries, projections released Monday by the Global Fund claimed.

CDC Confirms 11 Malaria Cases In People Who Traveled To Haiti
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:32:54 GMT
The CDC on Thursday said it confirmed that 11 cases of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among emergency personnel and Haitian residents who traveled to the U.S., the Miami Herald reports. The cases include: seven emergency responders, including six military personnel; three Haitian residents who traveled to the U.S., including one Haitian adoptee; and one U.S. traveler, the newspaper writes ...

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:48:36 GMT
The officials, led by assistant directors for central and eastern regions, Ponsiano Jumba and Mpaata Owagage, said the drugs most commonly stolen were Coartem, Arco and Duocortexin anti-malaria medicines.

Bill Clinton, Bill Gates say U.S. help abroad improves image
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:23:14 GMT
Bill Clinton and Bill Gates have told a Senate panel that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations play a vital role in improving America's image abroad.

Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria seeks increase in funding
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:47:01 GMT
Johannesburg - The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria on Monday appealed to Western donors to spend at least 3 billion dollars more on preventing and treating the diseases, saying to drop the buck now would be shameful. Professor Mi...

Counting on Clicks to Finance the Battle Against AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:52:00 GMT
Using their computers, travelers will be able to donate $2 when making reservations on some Internet travel sites.

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