Malaria diagnosis and treatment among outpatients attending publically-funded health facilities in Malawi, 2011.Laura C. SteinhardtJobiba ChinkhumbaAdam WolkonMadalitso LukaMisheck LuhangaJohn SandeJessica OyugiDoreen AliDon MathangaJacek Skarbinski...
JOHANNESBURG, 4 September 2012 (PlusNews) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria has announced that it has approved almost US$420 million to support essential services as part of its stop-gap Transitional Funding Mechanism (TFM), which was introduced late last year. ...
An association between malaria and swamps, for example, was established very early (503–403 bce), even though the reasons for the association were obscure. In the book Airs, Waters, and Places, thought to have been written by Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th or 4th century bce, the...
have been described by some as following a ‘deeply retrograde, insular design’ characterized by a lack of wider stakeholder input and a dogmatic unwillingness to consider establishing an external multisectoral secretariat like that of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria FIF [3]...
In a groundbreaking and controversial move, researchers funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation at Leiden University Medical Center have developed a revolutionary approach to combat malaria. The team has created... Explosive CIA Whistleblower Claims Havana Syndrome Victims Face Cancer, Dementia,...
For example, one Chinese herbal remedy, which has beenused for two thousand years, has recently been found to be effective againstvarieties of malaria that have resistance to other drugs. This herb could endup saving a million lives a year, mostly among children. In South Africa,another ...
In the Great War, malaria treatment fell back on quinine, but limited knowledge of malarial parasites compromised its effectiveness. Physicians of the time could not differentiate between the two strains of parasite active in the camps – P. vivax and P. falciparum. As a result, they could not...
Overview Each year, the World malaria report serves as a vital tool to assess global progress and gaps in the fight against malaria. This year’s report provides a critical and … 0FacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedinTumblrVKOdnoklassnikiRedditStumbleuponWhatsappTelegramLINEPocketSkypeViberEmail ...
Early studies funded by the Social and Economic Research (SER) component of TDR contributed much to the increasing emphasis on socio-cultural and socio-economic aspects. Special journal issues in the early 1990s presented collections of papers on behavioural and economic research on malaria (Sornmani...
Malaria case management remains a vital component of malaria control strategies. Despite the introduction of national malaria treatment guidelines and scale-up of malaria control interventions in Nigeria, anecdotal evidence shows some deviations from the guidelines in malaria case management. This study ass...