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Geneva, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The WHO Global Malaria Program published on Tuesday a new operational strategy outlining priorities and activities to help change trends in this deadly disease.

Malaria in pregnancy constitutes a global health priority with important effects on maternal and infant health. In this seminar, new findings from clinical trials and large implementation science projects that aim to optimize malaria control strategies targeting pregnant women living in moderate-high malaria transmission areas will be presented.   

Scientists from Sanaria Inc., and collaborators at multiple institutions publish results in Nature reporting "In vitro production of infectious Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites."

The World Health Organization says that malaria infections worldwide continued to increase in 2021 from a year earlier, mainly in Africa, although it grew at a slower pace.

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden, with around 96 percent of all cases and deaths in 2020.

On Friday, June 3 at 19:30 GMT:Every minute a child dies from malaria, a disease that disproportionately affects babies and children on the African co

The World Health Organization has approved for the first time a vaccine that helps reduce malaria symptoms and contagion.

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without better surveillance, experts say it is hard to track the threat.