AllAfrica News: Malaria

A medical expert, Dr Ogenetega Idaboh, has said that pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhoea are the leading causes of death among children under five years old.

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Shipments of the world's first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previous...

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Shipments of the world's first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331 200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previous...

https://allafrica.com/stories/202311230031.html

The approval of two malaria vaccines - the RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM vaccine in 2023 - will help control, and eventually help eradicate, a disease that causes more than 6...

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Jebel Aulia / El Gezira / El Fasher -- In a series of developments that unfolded over the past four days, warplanes executed airstrikes on specific sites within Jebel Aulia, situated at the sout...

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In an effort to tackle the spreading of malaria disease, Barrick Bulyanhulu Gold Mine has launched a campaign to ensure zero threat remains a goal.

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Each year antimicrobial resistance - the ability of microbes to survive agents designed to kill them - claims more lives than malaria and HIV/Aids combined. Africa bears the brunt of this develo...

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The Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has shed light on the regions grappling with high occurrences of malaria, highlighting the Southern Province as the most prevalent to the disease.

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DAR ES SALAAM: THE US through its Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US President's Malaria Initiative, delivered equipment at the Muhimbili College of Health and Allied Scienc...

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Addis Abeba -- The Oromia Physicians Association (OPA), non-profit professional association, has dispatched groups of doctors to Western Oromia to provide emergency healthcare services to commun...

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Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has launched the National Long-Lasting Insecticidal Treated Nets (LLINs) Distribution Campaign that kicks off today.

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Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) has announced that it targets to achieve 'zero malaria' in 2023 following a significant decline in the infection-related cases, according to officials.

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Kampala, Uganda -- A leading Kenya-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, Universal Corporation Ltd (UCL), has become the first African manufacturer to gain WHO prequalification for their sulfadoxin...

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The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control to conduct a baseline survey on fake anti-malaria medicines in the six geo-political zones o...

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South Africa has recorded over 7 400 malaria cases between January and October this year, with only 17% of these having been locally acquired.

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Gauteng Health intensifies malaria awareness campaign

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Geneva and Kiambu -- Universal Corporation Ltd (UCL), a Strides Pharma Science Limited (Strides) enterprise, with support from MMV, becomes the first African manufacturer to gain WHO prequalific...

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The annual health sector performance report has unveiled a comprehensive picture of the disease burden affecting the nation, with neonatal conditions emerging as the leading cause of health faci...

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The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is urging people travelling to malaria-endemic areas to take the appropriate precautions this summer.

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