Bed nets treated with insecticide have been effective in fighting malaria in Africa.
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The fight against malaria needs scientific innovation. But community buy-in is just as important.
Scientists analysing data at the South-South Malaria Research Partnership project laboratory in Kenya.
Flora Mutere-Okuku
Progress in malaria control has stalled. Research towards an effective vaccine is underway.
Most malaria cases and deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa.
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After an exceptional period of success in global malaria control, the progress has stalled. New strategies are needed to suit a variety of transmission patterns.
A young girl with malaria rests in the inpatient ward of a health centre in the South Sudan.
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Eliminating malaria in Africa has been held back by a range of factors, including a lack of funds and drug and insecticide resistance challenges.
A Unicef team creating a collaborative paper plane.
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How do you teach empathy? Can it be in a way that foregrounds ancient, indigenous knowledge and practices? Design thinking might hold the answers.
Malaria nets are being used as fishing nets in some parts of Africa.
Emma Bush
The simple use of a net intended to curb malaria by fishers has become a classic conservation problem.