Pest of a problem

Despite stringent criticism directed at its safety standards, DDT still rules as the major pesticide used by India's health sector

Be a planner, not a sprayer

The Directorate of the National Malaria Eradication Programme launched the Rs 715-crore Enhanced Malaria Control Project, in New Delhi on …

Wings of change

Researchers are trying to end malaria at its very root: by genetically modifying mosquitoes that carry the disease

Epidemic at hand

Thanks to El Nio, east and central Africa is reeling under a deadly onslaught of killer diseases

Folk cures

In Ethiopia, traditional healers can be a good alternative to an inefficient public health system

Malaria in the Thar Desert: Facts, Figures and Future - Book review

One usually does not associate malaria with a desert environment. Common sense dictates that mosquitoes, that breed only in stagnant water, would …

Chad’s first dengue fever outbreak: What you should know

Chad doesn’t have necessary public health preparedness and response capacities, so the risk is high

Crude and wholesome

Whole plant of sweet wormwood more effective than its extract in treating malaria

RASH OF EPIDEMICS

Malaria spreads in Orissa

Proving its metal

A plant derivative can kill cancer cells by targeting at their high iron concentration

Artificial light may become a new weapon in the fight to control malaria

Artificial lights trick nocturnal-feeding malaria mosquitoes into behave like it is daytime during night 

Outbreak of infectious diseases linked to change in forest cover, finds study

Outbreaks of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases linked to deforestation increased between 1990 and 2016

Lateral Thoughts: Don't blame it on the mosquito

Vector-borne diseases are complex and tackling just one aspect of the equation will not help  

Health interventions can help reduce burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The challenges to NTD elimination in Africa are multifaceted, but political commitments and the financial support is enabling the continent to …

What Africa still needs to do to eliminate malaria

Eliminating malaria in Africa has been held back by a range of factors, including a lack of funds and drug and insecticide resistance challenges

People in Africa are living longer but lifestyle diseases are rising

The burden of communicable disease is declining in Africa and life expectancy is increasing. But non-communicable diseases like diabetes, …

Climate change may double malaria risk from dams in sub-Saharan Africa

The future impacts of dams on malaria transmission are seldom understood and investigated

The ACD of malaria control

With the discovery that not all four anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, programmes to control the disease need fresh appraisal

Rewind 2018: Health roundup of India

Major developments, policies, reports and disputes in the health sector

Drug booster

Anti-fungal medicine can make malaria drugs deadlier

Infect the mosquitoes

Bacteria that can control malarial spread identified

Mosquitoes storm the desert

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

UGANDA

Fatal attraction

Why pregnant women attract mosquitoes