By Charlotte Follari, Norma Quintanilla, and Emily Shambaugh Malaria is one of the world’s most widespread and deadly infectious diseases, with nearly half of the world’s population at risk of exposure. One of the major barriers to effective malaria control, and the reason why it remains such an entrenched public health problem, is that risk of exposure, and access to control interventions, … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned from the Elimination of Malaria in the United States
By Jordan Cuevas, Mackenzie Moore, and Grant Rosensteel Malaria is one of the most widespread infectious diseases, affecting millions of people around the world every year and resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. Despite its ubiquity, some countries have been able to successfully control, and even eliminate, malaria. This piece takes a look at how the United States tackled the … [Read more...]
Challenges for Malaria Elimination: Cycles of Poverty
By Corey Rathe, Sabrina Barrett, Hannah Hidle, Emma Weimer Malaria is a serious and life-threatening disease – it is also preventable and treatable. So, why does malaria continue to devastate the lives of hundreds of millions each year? Poverty cycles hold much of this responsibility. Disease and suffering are amplified through overwhelming and cyclical traps. Malaria’s burden and most … [Read more...]
Tools and Strategies for Malaria Control and Elimination: What Do We Need to Achieve a Grand Convergence in Malaria?
Abstract Progress made in malaria control during the past decade has prompted increasing global dialogue on malaria elimination and eradication. The product development pipeline for malaria has never been stronger, with promising new tools to detect, treat, and prevent malaria, including innovative diagnostics, medicines, vaccines, vector control products, and improved mechanisms for surveillance … [Read more...]
Africa Faces $7 Billion Funding Gap to Fight Malaria
African countries face a $7-billion funding gap to control and eliminate malaria. To discuss this issue among others, African ministers of health came together at the African Union headquarters to commemorate World Malaria Day. Every year 660,000 people die from malaria, and 90 percent of those deaths are in Africa. Eliminating malaria by 2015 is one of the United Nations' Millennium … [Read more...]
Precautions to Prevent Malaria
QUESTION What precautions can be taken to prevent malaria? ANSWER This is a common question. Communities can try to control or eliminate mosquitoes (who when infected with the malaria parasite can bite humans and transmit the disease) by spraying with insecticide, using biological agents, or draining mosquito breeding areas. These methods are called vector control. On a personal level, … [Read more...]
Malaria Control and Prevention
QUESTION What are the methods of control and prevention of malaria? ANSWER Detailed information about methods of prevention and control of malaria can be. assessed via the Malaria Overview section of Malaria.com in the article: Malaria Control and Prevention. … [Read more...]
Mosquito Larvae Eradication
QUESTION What measures can be taken to eradicate the mosquito larvae? ANSWER The usual, traditional method of eradicating mosquito larvae is through the application of insecticides. However many of these are known to have severe negative effects on water quality, particularly through being non-selectively toxic and therefore killing lots of other aquatic life as well as the mosquitoes. … [Read more...]
Malaria meeting
QUESTION FACT meeting for malaria control programme directors in Asia are proposing to host a meeting in Penang, Malaysia probably in September 2012 for the all the Head of Malaria Department. Can you kindly update us the details of Head of Malaria Department (name, job position, company address & contacts) so that we can contact him/her regarding the details of the meeting. Looking … [Read more...]
Relapsing Malaria
QUESTION I'm constantly on malaria drugs, fall ill every 2 weeks and always diagnosed with malaria.I'm getting really fed up and need a permanent solution to all of this. I want to live a healthy life and I'm tired of being on malaria drugs. How do I overcome malaria permanently? ANSWER It is very unusual to be reinfected so constantly with malaria. First of all, how are you getting … [Read more...]