Imperial College VP visits Ghana and Kenya to strengthen research ties, USAID newsletter focuses on infectious diseases, vaccines are pushing pathogens to evolve and climate change is harming children’s health.
Mosquitoes don’t just bite for food, they also bite to quench their thirst during drought, scientists identify core genes which enables P. Falciparum to survive and The Scripps Research Institute receives $12 million from the Gates Foundation.
Ugandan health officers are given more power in arresting misusers of mosquito nets, the Plateau Government to establish a malaria vector site and malaria cases are on the rise in Zimbabwe.
Children beat malaria out of the community on World Malaria Day, the WHO say that the malaria response should get ‘back on track’, malaria cases increase in Venezuela and GSK fight malaria in the lab and on the ground.
TV presenter and Malaria No More ambassador, Charlie Webster, to run London Marathon, the #BiInSci social media campaign and Prince Charles to become the new Head of The Commonwealth.
ERC Advanced Grants offer Sweedish professor €2.5million to research the sex of malaria parasites, historic investments into Malaria R&D at the Malaria Summit in London and Andrew Mitchell on overseas aid.
Microsoft Founder, Bill Gates, says that increased investment in satellite surveillance is needed to eradicate malaria, South Africa issues malaria warning, Bayer pursue a novel insecticide ingredient and The Star newspaper in Kenya reports that 120,000 Kenyan children will receive the RTS,S vaccine this year.
Speakers encourage Commonwealth leaders to adopt new target of halving malaria cases at London’s Malaria Summit, Bill Gates announces $4bn in new funding and HRH Prince of Wales on why eradicating malaria is so important.
Novartis injects $100 million into malaria drug research, residents in Abuja, Nigeria demands access to malaria vaccine and the World Health Organisation purchases new high-tech mosquito nets.
MIT Researchers produce polymer gels using caffeine, malaria parasites are present in 23% of donor blood and children in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi will get the first dose of the RTS,S vaccine.