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Countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region aim to achieve malaria elimination by 2030. In the region, malaria is concentrated in high-risk areas and populations such as forest-going mobile and migrant populations (MMPs). However, routine protective measures such as long-lasting insecticidal nets do not prevent all infectious bites in these high-risk populations. Evidence for the effectiveness of a personal protection package tailored to forest-going MMPs which is acceptable, feasible, and cost-e...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has approved US$10 million in emergency funding to ensure access and distribution of essential medicines and health services in Pakistan.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies—normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes—to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the

An NGO, ACOMIN calls for stakeholders' collaboration to strengthen the health care system at the community level in Rivers and Nigeria

The recent report by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria detailing the questionable manner in which its $19.6m COVID-19 procurement grant to Nigeria was utilised has raised some questions. Global Fund gave the grant to the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), to address COVID-19-induced challenges affecting people living with […]

Asmara, 30 July 2022- National Malaria Day was observed on 29 July at Adi-Guaedad, Gala-Nesfhi sub-zone, at Central Region level under the theme “Integrated Effort for Eradicating Malaria”.Indicating that National Malaria Day is being observed every

Download logoNational Malaria Day was observed on 29 July at Adi-Guaedad, Gala-Nesfhi sub-zone, at Central Region level under the theme “Integrated Effort

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia recorded 2,005 cases of malaria in the first half of 2022, a drop of three per cent from 2,072 cases over the same period last year, a health official said.

VIENTIANE -- The Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines has issued a notice instructing the operators of hydropower dams in Laos to ensure that safety measures and em

PHNOM PENH, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia recorded 2,005 cases of malaria in the first half of 2022, a drop of 3 percent from 2,072 cases over the same period la