Malaria Minute

Ugandan refugees to get mosquito nets, combining two experimental anti-malarial vaccines can reduce malaria infections and a professor receives an OBE for services to parasitology and malaria.

In a historic statement, the World Health Organisation confirms that Paraguay is free from malaria and a Ugandan scientist wins a major prize for bloodless malaria detection device.

Mystery illness kills 8 children in Uganda, €100bn available to European Scientists, the impact of the US Malaria Initiative is analysed in a new study and Kenyan researchers trial a new drug for pregnant women.

Rwanda defends its decision to enter into a £30 million sponsorship deal with Arsenal, bloodless malaria detecting device makes it into the final of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, the effect deforestation has on malaria and the launch of a month-long Anti-Malaria drive in Odisha.

U.S. Veteran suffers long term damage from taking anti-malarial tablets, the secrets of how malaria became a human-killer and the University of Southern California announce the development of a prototype device capable of early-stage malaria detection.

Changes in a person’s body odour may help to identify them as infected with malaria, hygiene is the primary vaccine against child disease, The Rwandan Minister for Health says and mosquito spit primes your body for disease, so scientists want to make an anti-saliva vaccine.

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.