Azerbaijan, Tajikistan reach malaria-free milestone

In Tajikistan and Azerbaijan, the last cases of regional spread of Plasmodium vivax malaria were discovered in 2012 and 2014

Global malaria response suffered due to COVID-19: World Malaria Report 2021

COVID-19 service-related disruptions responsible for 69,000 additional malaria deaths in 2020, says new WHO report

Malaria vaccine: India needs it too, say experts

Countries in Africa registered 94 per cent of all malaria cases and deaths that took place globally in 2019; India saw the largest drop …

Nigeria has Africa’s highest malaria death rate — progress is being made, but it’s not enough

Nigeria’s environment is a favourable one in which mosquitoes – the malaria vector – can thrive

World Malaria Day: How Africa plans to fight the disease

Malawi becomes the first African nation to roll out landmark vaccine, Ghana and Kenya to join the league soon; Uganda adopts a new mass action …

Accelerate efforts to end malaria: World Health Assembly adopts new resolution

7.6 million deaths, 1.5 billion cases averted since 2000, but global gains levelled off in recent years, flags WHO

As a Malian, the slogan 'zero malaria starts with me' has special meaning

Researchers in Africa are in the early stages of developing a genetically modified mosquito that can only produce male offspring

Why this sudden surge in malaria cases in Delhi

Experts attribute higher incidence of malaria to intermittent rain in June

WHO launches new initiatives to contain invasive malaria vectors in Africa

Shifting our focus to integrated and locally adapted vector control can save both money and lives

Africa’s 1st malaria vaccine: Global alliance Gavi announces $160 million support for rollout

International support will facilitate increased vaccine access to children 

Simply put: India will eliminate Malaria by 2030

Alarms ring as deadly Asian malaria vector detected in Kenya

Anopheles Stephensi expanding its geographic range over the last decade; may derail Kenya's progress against malaria control

Vaccine hope

While Africa gets its first vaccine to fight malaria, India is still in the early stages of clinical trials

3.3 million possible malaria deaths averted in past 12 years: WHO

Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Korea inch closer to eradicating malaria

Ghana first to approve Oxford’s malaria vaccine for children

Vaccine was up to 80% successful in clinical trials 

Climate change can affect malaria transmission patterns in Africa: Study

Much of the subsequent increase in malaria transmission could be realised by 2041-2070, according to the study

A lone warrior who fights malaria and saves lives

For the past two decades, Ram Kumari has been single-handedly ensuring timely diagnosis of the disease in her village in Chhattisgarh

Chikungunya

Malaria parasite can now resist main line of treatment: Uganda study

Researchers flag risk of cross-border spread of malaria, especially in east Africa   

Fever kills 202 in Bareilly, district administration records just 28

The district hospital has one bed for every two patients suffering from fever and just two physicians to attend to them

CSIR scientists working on new vaccine for malaria

The aim is to make a vaccine that can be conditionally attenuated when given to humans

Indian scientists resurrect World War-era drug to fight malaria

Now, they are working to make this drug more effective using nanotechnology

World’s first malaria vaccine ready for rollout in sub-Saharan Africa

RTS, S is the first malaria vaccine to successfully complete pivotal phase three testing

India fourth in number of global malaria cases: Lancet report

All other nine high malaria prevalance countries are African

Malaria-free India: A vision may be more achievable now

The US’ FDA has approved a drug that can flush out a recurring parasite that causes 34 per cent malaria cases in India