Global Malaria News

Panadol to raise £100000 for Malaria No More UK over two months
UK Fundraising
Panadol is not of course a cure or a preventative for malaria. Panadol Brand Manager Renata Amaral explained: "as a global expert in pain relief for more than 50 years, Panadol wants to help others less fortunate around the world to protect their ...

Slate Magazine
Why Is the WHO Opposed to an Effective Anti-Malarial Tea?
Slate Magazine
The tea comes from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), the Chinese plant that is a source for the world's most powerful anti-malarial treatments, which combine artemisinin derivatives with an older class of drugs. It can also be grown in wetter parts of ...

War of Ideas: While focusing on AIDS and malaria in the developing world, are ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
According to some projections, non-communicable diseases will account for 54 percent of the global disease burden by 2030, while communicable disease will fall to 32 percent. And while conditions like cancer and diabetes were once thought of as the ...

World First Travel Insurance
Natalie Gulbis excited for return to Kraft Nabisco Championship after malaria ...
The Desert Sun
RANCHO MIRAGE — Withdrawing from three tournaments in four weeks, Natalie Gulbis hasn't played a meaningful round of golf since late February in Thailand when she was bitten by a mosquito and contracted malaria. Initially described as flu-like ...
Golfer back after malaria setbackWorld First Travel Insurance
Asian golf hazard: Gulbis back, but malaria's effects remainThe Courier-Journal
Inbee Park takes 3-shot lead in Kraft NabiscoUSA TODAY

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Philly.com
Natalie Gulbis back from malaria at Rancho Mirage
Yahoo! Sports
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Natalie Gulbis is returning to play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship after recovering from malaria. Infected by a mosquito during the LPGA Thailand event, Gulbis withdrew after the first round the following week in Singapore.
Gulbis makes her return at the Kraft NabiscoThe Desert Sun (blog)
Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the worldLos Angeles Times

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Los Angeles Times
Natalie Gulbis back from malaria at Rancho Mirage
MiamiHerald.com
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Natalie Gulbis will return to play in the Kraft Nabisco Championship after recovering from malaria. Infected by a mosquito during the LPGA Thailand event, Gulbis withdrew after the first round the following week in Singapore.
Gulbis makes her return at the Kraft NabiscoThe Desert Sun (blog)
Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the worldLos Angeles Times

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Agency sought for global anti-malaria campaign
PRWeek
The communications hunt follows a warning last year from research group Malaria Atlas Trust that the $2.55 billion spent in 2010 was less than half the estimated amount needed to control the disease globally. It is estimated that malaria kills 1.2 ...

Sarawak Biodiversity Centre to host talk on malaria April 26
The Borneo Post
Prof Balbir Singh, from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), will describe the work that led to the discovery of a large number of human Plasmodium knowlesi malaria infections in Kapit Division, followed by ...

Countdown nears for final 1,000 days of MDGs, GMAP Financing, 7th Meeting of the RBM Case Management Working Group (CMWG), In a relatively quiet region of Mali, programme targets malaria deaths, Can We Save More Than Four Million Children's Lives In the Next 1,000 Days?, SARN mission reports 2013...

Agency sought for global anti-malaria campaign
PRWeek UK
The comms hunt follows a warning last year from res-earcher group Malaria Atlas Trust that the US$2.55bn (£1.69bn) spent in 2010 was less than half the estimated amount needed to control the disease globally. It is estimated that malaria kills 1.2 ...

SitNews
Alaska mosquitoes spreading malaria in birds
SitNews
(SitNews) - Thousands of Alaska mosquitoes are now on sabbatical at the University of California, Davis. They are not pestering suntanned Californians. Researchers are analyzing their tiny corpses to see if the parasites that cause malaria are inside them.

Gulbis, still recovering from malaria, back in action
USA TODAY
As for Wednesday, however, Gulbis doesn't know how she'll feel, the result of lingering effects from malaria she contracted a month ago in Asia. "I feel good some days, and other days, not so much," Gulbis told USA TODAY Sports. "I thought I could come ...

1.Pourquoi investir dans la lutte contre le paludisme ? Tendances en matière de financement; Besoins de financement par région et par secteur; Sources de collecte de fonds et actions stratégiques...

New section on the RBM website that describes the latest funding trends, financial needs: by region and by sector, fundraising streams and strategic actions, as well as the latest news on GMAP financing...

Countdown nears for final 1,000 days of MDGs, GMAP Financing, 7th Meeting of the RBM Case Management Working Group (CMWG), In a relatively quiet region of Mali, programme targets malaria deaths, Can We Save More Than Four Million Children's Lives In the Next 1,000 Days?, SARN mission reports 2013...

Cancer Drugs an Unexpected Ally in the Battle Against Malaria
Newswise (press release)
Newswise — In the fight against malaria, cancer drugs are far from being considered a useful tool. But new research at Seattle BioMed reveals that liver cells, which are first infected by Plasmodium parasites after their transmission by mosquito bite ...

Scientists tested the efficacy of cancer drugs at killing the malaria parasite during the liver phase with astonishing success. This research paves the way for future studies using cancer drugs that could cause less drug resistance and have more targeted treatments than conventional malaria drugs.

Effective treatment with a tetrandrine/chloroquine combination for chloroquine ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
... with these drug treatments. Conclusions: This combination of chloroquine and tetrandrine forms the basis of a new attack on chloroquine-resistant malaria - one based upon inhibition of the basis of chloroquine resistance, the multiple drug ...

Progress, puzzles in halting malaria: Hidden parasites pose challenge to ...
Medical Xpress
The prevalence of malaria in the population on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar has fallen to just 2 percent from 70 percent over the last century. Much of the progress came in just the last 10 years, leading to a new challenge: how to sustain ...

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Malaria Remains Top Killer in Rukwa
AllAfrica.com
The RMO further explained that 56 per cent of all patients admitted to various health facilities in the region were suffering from malaria. He said that cases of emerging and re-emerging epidemics including swine fever, Ebola, Rift Valley fever as well ...

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