Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report—Malaria

News Outlets Examine Malaria Drug Resistance, Hope For Malaria Eradication In Africa

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:19:17 GMT

Experts at an American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting this week said that resistance to the best available drug to treat malaria "is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported," Science News/Wired Science reports.

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:12:00 GMT

UNICEF Report Highlights Gains In Child Health, While 1B Still Lack Essential Services

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:56 GMT

A special edition of UNICEF's annual State of the World's Children report, released 20 years after the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, shows that "fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school – but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development," the Associated Press reports.

Pfizer, DNDi Partner To Identify NTD Drugs; Sanofi-Aventis, Medicines For Malaria Launch Drug Study

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:31:20 GMT

Pfizer and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) on Wednesday announced plans to team up in an effort to identify new drug candidates for the treatment of three tropical diseases, the Associated Press/Business Week reports. The scientists will test the efficacy of Pfizer drug candidates against sleeping sickness, visceral leishmaniasis, and Chagas disease.

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:55:32 GMT

Report Calls For Refocusing Health Spending In Developing Countries To Save Children's Lives

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:27:48 GMT

"More than 24,000 infants die daily from preventable diseases in developing countries," and child deaths have fallen in countries where governments "have shown a high level of political leadership on child health," World Vision International said in a new report (.pdf) released on Monday as part of a five-year campaign to reduce child deaths worldwide, the Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle reports.

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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:09:14 GMT

TIME Examines Efforts To Combat Malaria Resistance Along Thai-Cambodia Border

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:29:48 GMT

TIME reports on evidence along the Thai-Cambodia border that the malaria parasite is gaining resistance to artemisinin – "the only remaining effective drug in the world's arsenal against malaria's most deadly strain."

Global Fund Approves $2.4B For Ninth Round Grants

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:22:00 GMT

During its recent board meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved $2.4 billion for the three diseases, PlusNews reports. The money is for the fund's "ninth round of grants, bringing the total amount of approved funding since its inception in 2001 to $18.4 billion," according to the publication.

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:14:30 GMT

VOA News Examines Conculsion Of MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

The 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference ended Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, "with scientists expressing optimism about several developments in the works to prevent, treat, and possibly eradicate a disease that kills nearly one million people in Africa each year," VOA News reports.

WHO, MSF Highlight Poor Health Situation In Southern Sudan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Three quarters of people in South Sudan, which has a population of 8 million, do not have access to health care, and 10 percent of children there and in Darfur die before the age of 1, Mohammad Abdur Rab, the WHO's representative to Sudan, said Thursday, Reuters/ABC News reports.

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:30:22 GMT

Reuters Examines China's Involvement In Fighting Malaria In Africa

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:06 GMT

Chinese scientists have been working on enhancing "the rare sweet wormwood shrub, from which artemisinin – the best drug to fight malaria – is derived" in an effort to fight malaria "not on its own soil, where the deadly disease has been sharply pruned back, but in Africa, where it still kills one child every 30 seconds," Reuters reports.

Climate Change Is Biggest Global Health Threat To Children, Report Says

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:49:12 GMT

According to a report (.pdf) by Save the Children, climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century, the Hindu reports.

Malaria Experts Discuss Eradication At MIM Conference

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:37:28 GMT

In a session at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, experts discussed the tools required to eradicate the disease and highlighted insecticide and drug resistance in some parts of the world, Xinhua reports.

AMFm Subsidized Malaria Drugs To Be Delivered Soon

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:59:00 GMT

Subsidized artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) under the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) program will be available in select countries "in two week's time," SABC News reports. The announcement came Monday at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Malaria Conference Addresses RTS,S Vaccine, Tools, Treatment

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

On Tuesday at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, scientists and global health experts focused on malaria eradication, Agence France-Presse reports. "Key among the strategies ... is the development of an effective anti-malaria vaccine, a project scientists have been researching since the late 80s. ... RTS,S is the most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far, according to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative," the news service writes (11/3).

Opinions: Obstetric Fistula; Malaria And Climate Change

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:06:12 GMT