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AllAfrica News: Malaria
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Central African Republic: New Unicef Campaign Aims to Reduce Child Deaths
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has embarked on one of the largest vaccination campaigns in the history of the Central African Republic (CAR), aiming to give 800,000 children the tools they need to address the three leading causes of preventable death: malaria, measles and diarrhoea.
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Uganda: Gulu Radio Donates Mosquito Nets
MEGA FM through its children programme has donated fifty insecticide-treated mosquito nets to the children's ward at Gulu Hospital.
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Africa: U.S. Scientists Discover Anti-Malaria Tool
American researchers have developed a computer programme to help in the battle against malaria by identifying the most effective environmental changes that would control its spread through mosquitoes.
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Africa: New Hope for Malaria Vaccine
The world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine trials have given new hope in the fight against the disease, which in sub-Saharan Africa kills a child every 30 seconds.
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Africa: Roll Back Malaria Partnership Welcomes UN General Assembly Resolution On Malaria
The Roll Back Malaria Partnership welcomes the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A63/L.62 "2001-2010: a decade to roll back malaria in developing countries, particularly in Africa" adopted by consensus on Monday December 22.
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Ghana: Move to Tackle Malaria Initiated
Ninety community-based health educators have received training on one of the notable killer diseases, malaria, to enable them to embark on mass education of their respective communities on the dangers of the disease.
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Cameroon: Effective Communication is Vital for the Elimination of Malaria
Experts involved in the fight against malaria have indicated the necessity of an effective communication for the eradication of malaria.
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Africa: 2001-2010 - Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa
The General Assembly,
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Liberia: Health Minister Detests Sale of Donated Mosquito Nets
Health Minister Dr. Walter Gwenigale has called for the arrest of people selling mosquito nets that were distributed by the ministry free of charge.
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Uganda: 90 Percent of 'Malaria Patients' Not Sick, Says Health Expert
THE health ministry in conjunction with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has started a new test for malaria in health centre IIs where microscopes are not available.
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Africa: Report Calls for Health Funding
"The U.S. government [should] demonstrate, through policies and actions, that this nation fundamentally believes in the value of better health for all. The committee is calling on the next President to highlight health as a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.
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Africa: Malaria Vaccine On the Way to Final-Stage Trials
Sixteen thousand children in seven African countries are due to undergo final-stage tests of a potential malaria vaccine early next year after research showed it halves the risk of malaria among infants and children in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Africa: Obama 'Should Double Global Health Spending'
The US should double its expenditure on global health as a mainstay of its foreign policy, leading US medical specialists said this week (15 December).
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Uganda: Apac Residents to Receive 65,000 Mosquito Nets
APAC residents are to get 65,000 free mosquito nets, a health ministry official has said. Dr. Medard Rukaari said the United Nations children's organisation, Unicef, would distribute the nets during the Christmas season.
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Botswana: Foreigners Allowed Free Cholera Treatment
The Ministry of Health has started offering free health access to foreigners with suspected cholera symptoms.
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Africa: Malaria Vaccine Could Be Ready By 2011
The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine that is capable of reducing the incidence of malaria by more than 50 per cent in African infants and young children, may be licenced for use by 2011 if results of the final efficacy study commence early next year are anything to go by.
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Ghana: Ammren Sensitizes Media On Malaria Reporting
The African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN) has organised a one-day sensitisation workshop for a cross section of media practitioners in the country.
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Ghana: Malaria Cases Go Up in New Juaben
Malaria cases continue to rise in the New Juaben Municipality despite interventions such as the use of treated bed nets.
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Nigeria: Co-Ordinator Appeals to Indian Hemp Farmers to Cultivate Artemisia
Mr Francis Onojeta, the co-ordinator of the Roll-Back-Malaria Project in Delta State, has appealed to Indian hemp farmers to cultivate Artemisia herb for the production of anti-malarial drugs instead of the narcotic plant.
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Nigeria: Jigawa Distributes 247,000 Mosquito Nets
Jigawa State government has distributed about 247,000 treated mosquito nets to the 27 local government areas of the state.
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