Malaria

Researchers say warming temperatures are altering malaria transmission patterns across Africa, creating new challenges for health systems and disease control.

For decades, global efforts towards the eradication of malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, have focused essentially on West and Central Africa where the disease is most endemic.

The WHO African Region accounts for about 95% of global malaria cases and deaths. More than half of all malaria deaths in the region occur in Nigeria (31.9

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KSrelief, in partnership with UNHCR, repatriate 155 Somali refugees from Yemen RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's aid agency has launched a nationwide campaign to distribute one million insecticide-treated mosquito nets across Yemen while facilitating the voluntary return of 155 Somali refugees to their homeland, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) said the mosquito net campaign, launched in Aden in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Yemen's National Malaria Control Program, aims to protect two million vulnerable people from malaria. The campaign will prioritize pregnant women, children and internally displaced people living in camps across all Yemeni governorates. Yemen's Minister of Public Health and Population, D...
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..Education, security too ... after $3 bn in aid ...Experts: This is a diplomatic red alert ...Say HIV, TB, malaria programmes at risk By Chioma Obinna Nigeria could be staring at one of its biggest humanitarian crises in decades after the United States (U.S.) House of Representatives voted to withhold 100 per cent of American assistance to the country over concerns about alleged continued killing of Christians and worsening insecurity. Although the measure is yet to become law, health experts and development stakeholders warned that if eventually approved by the U.S. Senate and signed by President Donald Trump, the decision could cripple life-saving health programmes, throw thousands of aid workers into unemployment, disrupt humanitarian interventions and reverse decades of gains against ...
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The federal government has announced that Nigeria reduced malaria prevalence from 42 per cent in 2010 to 15 per cent in 2025, describing the achievement as a major milestone in the country's fight against the disease. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, disclosed this in Abuja during the national dissemination of the findings of the Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) Implementation Research. Salako said the 2025 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey reflected significant progress over the past 15 years, attributing the decline to sustained investments by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, development partners and other stakeholders. According to him, interventions such as vector control, improved diagnosis and treatment, enhanced disea...
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Malaria prevention guidelines. Provided by Incheon City

A malaria alert has been issued for Ganghwa County in Incheon.

The Incheon Metropolitan Government announced on the 15th that it issued a malaria alert for Ganghwa County on the 14th.

The move follows the nationwide malaria advisory issued by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency on June 22 and reflects a recent increase in the number of Anopheles mosquitoes, the malaria vector, in Ganghwa County.

A malaria alert is issued when

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Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern confined to scientific conferences and global summits. It has become a public health emergency unfolding daily across Nigeria, where rising temperatures, devastating floods, prolonged droughts, and worsening air pollution are placing millions of lives at risk. From increasing cases of malaria and cholera to malnutrition, respiratory illnesses and mental health disorders, the country's changing climate is reshaping the nation's health landscape in ways that demand urgent action. Ayodeji Ake writes In an emotional 42-minute virtual conversation with THISDAY, Jide, a Lagos resident who commutes daily from the mainland to his workplace on the Island, recounted the devastating toll the recent flooding has taken on his family and financ...
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International development organisations have called for stronger government commitment, catalytic procurement policies and predictable market demand to accelerate Nigeria's local diagnostics manufacturing industry. The call was made during a high-level visit by executives from Roll Back Malaria, UNITAID, PATH and Solina to Codix Bio, one of Nigeria's leading manufacturers of rapid diagnostic tests. Speaking during the visit, Roll Back Malaria CEO, Dr. Michael Adekunle Charles, said Nigeria possesses the manufacturing ambition required to become a continental leader but requires stronger ecosystem support similar to countries such as Uganda. "In Uganda, diagnostic manufacturers receive full government backing. That changes everything. They manufacture not only for their own country but for ...
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Scientists say climate change is changing where malaria spreads across Africa, with South Africa's north-eastern provinces projected to experience some of the continent's biggest increases in climate-driven risk Climate change is reshaping Africa's malaria map, increasing the risk of the disease in South Africa's north-eastern provinces and the East African highlands even as warming temperatures make some of the continent's current malaria hotspots less suitable for transmission, according to a landmark study published in Nature. The international study, co-authored by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is the most comprehensive assessment to date of how human-caused climate change has influenced childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa, where most global malaria cases ...
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Climate change has increased childhood malaria and could continue to do so in southern and East Africa where communities are less experienced at tackling the disease, while reducing the risk in today's hotspots as temperatures become too high for mosquitoes, according to a new study published in Nature.

The study -- The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa -- quantifies climate change's historical and future impact in sub-Saharan Africa's children, where most c

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The Kwara State Government has commissioned what it described as Nigeria's largest high-capacity medical waste incinerator dedicated to primary healthcare facilities, in a move aimed at strengthening healthcare delivery, improving environmental safety and promoting the safe disposal of infectious medical waste. The facility, located at the Primary Healthcare Centre in Oke-Oyi, headquarters of Ilorin East Local Government Area, was commissioned and handed over through the Immunization Plus and Malaria Progress by Accelerating Coverage and Transforming Services (IMPACT) Project to the Kwara State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (KWSPHCDA). Constructed by Prezzo Shed Nigeria Limited with support from the IMPACT Project, the ultra-modern facility is regarded as the first of its kind in N...
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