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OP-ED. On World Malaria Day, Friday, April 25, a group of international researchers calls for a low-cost solution: Artemisia ...
Laos renews commitment to end malaria by 2030. Laos has reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating malaria by 2030 at a World ...
We are not walking into the unknown. Just across the continent, Cabo Verde, another island nation, has shown us what is ...
On World Malaria Day, we explore how malaria differs from other mosquito-borne diseases—from the mosquito species involved to ...
Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Unica Cardoso, 35, center in blue-purple headwrap, waits in line for ...
"It's something that frightens everyone involved in research on malaria. Though there are treatments (artemisinin based combination therapy), there is a real worry that soon we won't have ...
He had unbearable nightmares. A health worker told Chhoem that he had tested positive for Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest kind of malaria-causing parasite. But because a wave of malaria was ...
Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa. The World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report ...
The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...