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With human and financial resources deployed to fight the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that healthcare services are facing major disruption.

To achieve zero malaria in Africa, countries must prevent, diagnose and treat the disease at no cost to patients

• ‘COVID-19, Rising Drug Resistance Threaten Disease Elimination • Slowing Down On Fight May Increase Child Mortality, Mokuolu Warns As nations celebrate World Malaria Day (WMD) today, Nigeria and other African countries worse hit by the disease may get more relief and inch near the global zero malaria target with mass deployment of malaria vaccine by October this year. x The cheery news came with indications that the malaria vaccine jab, RTS, S has passed safety and efficacy tests in clinical trials and may be globally approved for mass deployment an...

Share Community health workers distribute medicine aimed at preventing seasonal malaria in Burkina Faso. A recent successful clinical trial has raised hopes for a vaccine against the disease.   LYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Malaria vaccine has striking early success after decades of disappointment Apr. 23, 2021 , 8:25 PM After decades of disappointing results, recent findings have revived hopes for an effective vaccine against malaria, which kills some 400,000 people every year, most of them children. An experimental vaccine that targets the most dangerous form of the mala...

WHO launches effort to eradicate malaria in 25 countries by 2025 WHO launches effort to eradicate malaria in 25 countries by 2025 By Teddy Cambosa Ahead of the observance of the World Malaria Day, marked annually on 25 April, the World Health Organization has launched a new initiative to halt transmission of the disease in 25 more countries by 2025. Image/ColiN00B Of the 87 countries with malaria, 46 reported fewer than 10,000 cases of the disease in 2019 compared to 26 countries in 2000. By the end of 2020, 24 countries had reported interrupting malaria transmission for 3 yea...