WHO has joined forces with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre to support malaria prevention and control efforts across the country. Under a blazing midday sun in the Tur Al-Baha district...
Abrar Ahmed, Kara Grace Hounsell, Talha Sadiq, Mariam Naguib, Kirstyn Koswin, Chetha Dharmawansa, Thavachchelvi Rasan, Anita M McGahan ABSTRACT Despite the 26-year long civil war, Sri Lanka was...
WHO and Global Fund Warn Inequalities Block Progress Towards Ending AIDS, TB and Malaria GENEVA– Inequities have been widely acknowledged as barriers to achieving global and national goals and...
WHO welcomes the historic decision by the Gavi Alliance Board to invest in the first malaria vaccine programme. The decision secures investment in the long-awaited malaria vaccine and assures that...
More malaria cases and deaths in 2020 linked to COVID-19 disruptions Worst-case scenario averted, but urgent action needed to meet global malaria targets Geneva, 6 December 2021 – New data from the...
A new malaria vaccination programme will support Gavi-eligible countries to implement a new tool in the fight against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022-2025, including vaccine introduction,...
Geneva, 2 December 2021 The board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has just approved an investment in the rollout of the RTS,S malaria vaccine, which was recommended for use by the World Health...
For years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been observing the impacts of climate change on the people we treat and on our medical humanitarian activities. As we respond to...
FREETOWN/ TEHRAN, 30 November 2021 (IRCS) – Iranian Red Crescent Society rendered health and treatment services to people of Sierra Leone after the spread of typhoid and malaria in the country. Since...
"I will stay here until she gets better," said Rebecca Achol Atak while sitting next to her granddaughter’s bed in Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. Atong had suffered...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 — 780,000 people have been affected by some of the worst floods to hit South Sudan in decades (OCHA). Water levels in many areas are still on the rise and the weather...
Approximately 1,629,289 (64%) Namibians are at risk of contracting malaria. Malaria transmission is unstable, seasonal, characterized by outbreaks and concentrated in 7 endemic northern regions. The...
GENEVA – The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved the new Global Fund Strategy: Fighting Pandemics and Building a Healthier and More Equitable World. The new...
WHO and the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) today signed an agreement that gives political and legal anchoring to the cooperation between these two organizations. The agreement...
Yola, 1 November, 2021 - Maimuna Abdulraham a caregiver and four other women living in Yola South Local Government Area in Adamawa state sat patiently under a tree in front of their houses awaiting...
Virtual forum also features presentations on new vaccine candidates Earlier this month, RTS,S/AS01 (also known as RTS,S) became the first malaria vaccine recommended by WHO for broad use among...
WHO recommendation for wider use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine is largely based on data gathered during malaria vaccine pilots which took place in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,...
Historic RTS,S/AS01 recommendation can reinvigorate the fight against malaria GENEVA, October 6th 2021 --- The World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S)...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dramatic progress over the past two decades has prevented 1.5 billion malaria infections and saved 7.6 million lives. Dramatic progress over the past two decades has prevented 1.5...
In Haramia, as in 14 other villages in the commune of Bandé in southern Niger, villagers are living through a rainy season much different to previous years. In these villages, our teams have launched...