Malaria in South Africa is close to being eliminated but to complicate matters scientists have identified a second mosquito transmitting the disease.
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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.
Mosquitoes are controlled by insecticide treated nets to curb the spread of Malaria. The nets which are hung over beds can be reused after serving its purpose.
The gains made towards eliminating malaria in endemic countries is being threatened by insecticide and antimalarial drug resistance.
There’s a need for new anti-malarial agents due to some malaria drugs becoming ineffective in the fight against the disease.
How do you teach empathy? Can it be in a way that foregrounds ancient, indigenous knowledge and practices? Design thinking might hold the answers.
The proposed foreign aid cuts by US President Donald Trump will have a devastating impact on healthcare in Africa.
There are lots of tall tales about mosquitoes and how malaria is transmitted. Here are sturdy facts on the disease.
The link between taking iron supplements and the increased risk of contracting malaria is a complex one.
As East Africa becomes warmer, the threat of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria, Rift Valley Fever and cholera is increasing.
Simple steps can lower your risk of bringing home traveller’s diarrhoea, respiratory infections and mosquito-borne diseases from your holiday.
There’s a growing body of evidence that shows we could be doing more for the close to billion children at risk of intestinal worms. We simply cannot afford to ignore it.
Doxycycline is an antibiotic drug that kills a wide, weird and wonderful range of bugs that are often difficult to treat with other antibiotics.
There’s a new weapon against mosquitoes that spreads diseases such as dengue and yellow fever – more mosquitoes.
Precision public health has the potential to transform the global health sphere by ensuring that the right interventions are brought to the right people in the right places.
The simple use of a net intended to curb malaria by fishers has become a classic conservation problem.
The burden of communicable disease is declining in Africa and life expectancy is increasing. But non-communicable diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer are wreaking havoc.
Anopheles arabiensis is the world’s most common, malaria-carrying mosquito. Now it’s emerged that chickens emit an odour that can repel the deadly insects.
With the right investment, an open source drug discovery system might compete with the traditional pharmaceutical industry to deliver the drugs we need.
Scientists have discovered a second new compound that could eventually be developed into a medicine to help eradicate malaria.
Top contributors
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute
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Project Manager, Cambridge Africa, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and Public Health Scientist, MidMichigan Health, University of Michigan
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Co-Director, Institute of Infection, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology, Imperial College London
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Director and CEO, Burnet Institute
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Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Professor in Molecular Parasitology and Genetics, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Scientist, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
