There’s a significant shortage of people working in STEM, costing businesses £1.5 billion a year. Katherine Andrews, the Project Manager of ‘That’s RAD! Science’ is trying to change that by bringing STEM careers to life through educational picture books.
Doctors Without Borders employee removed from a malaria program in Niger, Japanese company launch the world’s first ‘mosquito repellent paint’ and avian malaria results in a UK zoo using plastic models instead of penguins.
Joining me today is Rob Mather, the CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation. The foundation funds anti-malaria nets, specifically long-lasting insecticidal nets, LLINs.
WHO deploys 4,000 volunteers to tackle malaria in Borno, Imperial College London use gene-editing to block the reproductive abilities of mosquitoes and researchers boost the immune response to malaria.
Access to healthcare can be extremely limited, with the nearest health facility located hours away. Transaid is using bicycle ambulances to transport mothers and children.
Nando’s launches malaria bracelets, researchers discover that cancer therapies can help overcome malaria drug resistance and malaria takes a hold on earthquake-hit Lombok.
What makes a public health animation effective and, as the NHS introduces an online quiz to determine heart age, will such quizzes have a greater role in public health?
Vaccines against malaria, HIV and Tuberculosis ‘unlikely’ unless funding triples, an investigational drug developed by Portland State University to go through clinical trials and 10,000 genetically modified mosquitoes are due to be set free in Africa.
BBC journalist and 5 Live presenter, Rachael Bland, dies at the age of 40 and the ‘wonder therapy’ for cancer to become available on the NHS – we speak to an expert working on similar therapies for malaria.
Margaret Reilly McDonnell, the Executive Director of Nothing But Nets discusses the importance of mosquito nets, the growing issue of insecticide resistance and cuts to foreign aid.