Malaria
GM mosquitoes offer malaria hope
April 24, 2011Scientists believe they are closer to being able to change the DNA of wild mosquitoes in order to combat malaria. In the laboratory, they made a gene spread from a handful of mosquitoes to most of the population in just a few generations, according to...
Report: 5 mil. lives saved through AIDS, Malaria, TB treatment since 2002
March 08, 2010By Lisa Schlein The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reports nearly 5 million lives have been saved since 2002 through programs it has supported for the treatment of these three killer diseases. A new report shows the fund's multi...
'H8' Meeting of Global Health Leaders Underway in Seattle
June 19, 2009As part of what some are calling the "Davos of global health," four major global health gatherings are taking place in Seattle this week, the most exclusive of which is the Health 8, or H8, meeting that brings together the leaders of major international...
Doctors forecast malaria incidence growth in 2009
April 24, 2009Medical experts are forecast an increase of malaria incidence in Moldova this year. Chief of the parasitology department of the National Center for Preventive Medicine Vera Lungu told Infotag that 44 imported malaria cases were registered in 2008,...
Researchers find key to malaria
July 09, 2007Researchers in Texas have discovered why some mosquitoes are resistant to malaria, a leading cause of death worldwide. Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas focused on TEP1, a protein in the mosquito's immune...
White House conference: Bush urges Europe to boost malaria fight in Africa
December 16, 2006Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush urged European nations Thursday to pour more money into fighting malaria, the mosquito-borne illness that kills more people than HIV-AIDS in parts of Africa. The White House-sponsored conference was...