More than 60 million people live in the lower Mekong River basin and currently struggle with drug-resistant malaria.
Tag archives for Malaria
Tackling Malaria and Other Transboundary Challenges in the Lower Mekong through Regional Cooperation
A Promise Renewed: A Great Global Ambition and Every Father’s Dream
Mass Media’s Role in Malaria Control
Malaria No More is working to keep up the momentum of behavior change communications for malaria control in Africa. Read more >>
USAID and Merck Put Skin in the Health Finance Game
USAID and Merck have joined other donors and companies in a massive ramp-up of an existing public health financing program built to help countries that need health supplies get more bang for their buck. Read more >>
Adding Vaccines to Intensify the Assault on Malaria
The international community has made phenomenal progress against malaria, but the gains are fragile. Read more >>
Catching Mosquitoes, Not Fish: Returning Bed Nets to their Proper Use in the DRC
In the DRC, where only five percent of pregnant women receive proper preventive malaria therapy, and malaria accounts for nearly 40 percent of child deaths, prevention is a critical priority. Read more >>
Health and Economic Returns on Science and Innovation Investments for Global Health
Much work is to be done. Global diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis take eight lives per minute. Read more >>
Use of Technology in Malaria Prevention and Control Activities
mHealth applications are helping Zanzibar to identify and treat many otherwise undiagnosed malaria cases, identifying hot spots and transmission patterns, and responding rapidly to new outbreaks. Read more >>
Religious Leaders “Noisy About Malaria” in Mozambique
Each year, World Malaria Day (April 25) commemorates the global fight toward zero malaria deaths and mobilizes action to combat malaria. This year’s theme is “Invest in the Future: Defeat Malaria.” Anglican Bishop Dinis Sengulane’s message isn’t exactly what one might expect from a typical religious leader. Then again, Bishop Sengulane, who has presided over Mozambique’s Lebombo Diocese since 1976, is not a typical leader, religious […]
