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Malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases, is transmitted by one of the world’s smallest insects—the mosquito.

Rockville MD (PRWEB) January 05, 2023 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead agency for the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative

Digital template application powered by CommCare for investigating monkeypox cases and tracing contacts to be offered free for 6 months to control...

Azithromycin is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that has moderate antimalarial activity and has been shown to reduce all-cause mortality when biannually administered to children under five in high mortality settings in sub-Saharan Africa. One potential mechanism for this observed reduction in mortality is via a reduction in malaria transmission. We evaluated whether a single oral dose of azithromycin reduces malaria positivity by rapid diagnostic test (RDT). We conducted an individually randomized placebo-controlled trial in Burkina Faso during the high malaria transmission season in August 2020. ...

  On World Sickle Cell Day (19th June 2021) the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, announced through his Facebook and Instagram pages that hydroxyurea, a disease-modifying therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD) will now be provided under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to improve the health of people living with SCD in Ghana.  This announcement followed a meeting he convened on 8th June 2021, with stakeholders including Professor Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, President of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (Foundation), Hon. Kwaku Agyemang-Man...