Africa’s 1st malaria vaccine: Global alliance Gavi announces $160 million support for rollout
International support will facilitate increased vaccine access to children
The invisible bhadralok
Field notes from a waterborne land sheds light on the lives of those bengalis who barely exist for the outside world.
How temperature & rainfall are complicating Africa’s fight against malaria
Six countries — Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Mozambique, Angola and Burkina Faso — accounted for about 55% …
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
What impact does climate change have on your health?
Heat-related deaths increased by 68 per cent between 2000–2004 and 2017–2021
Low- and middle-income countries struggle to provide healthcare to some, while others get too much medicine
Overdiagnosis and overuse of healthcare wastes 20% health spending in high-income countries
WHO launches new strategy to tackle antimalarial drug resistance in Africa
Some 96% malaria infections and fatalities worldwide in 2020 were from sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria cases, deaths begin stabilising after COVID disruption: WHO
While deaths came down to 619,000 in 2021 from 625,000 in the first year of the pandemic, it remained higher than the pre-pandemic level of 568,…
Autonomous Africa CDC a game-changer on disease outbreak response: Experts
Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention will now be in a position to assess disease outbreaks on the continent and declare it an …