Edson Mwebesa, Fellow at the Wits-based Sub-Saharan Africa Advanced Consortium for Biostatistics (SSACAB), knows children who died from late-diagnosed malaria. His research has also revealed that ...

Africa is off track to meet its malaria reduction targets, with climate change, biological resistance, shrinking donor funding and inadequate intervention coverage threatening efforts to eliminate the ...

Malaria incidents are on the rise. There were 249 million cases of this parasitic disease in 2022, 5 million more than in 2021. Africa suffers more than any other region from malaria, with 94% of ...

In various regions of Africa, the repurposing of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for fishing is becoming a growing trend.

Abdoulaye Diabate faced a life-threatening bout of malaria when he was just five years old. Diabate narrowly survived the mosquito-borne disease, but cousins ages three and four were not as fortunate.

More than 95 percent of the world’s malaria cases are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2022, the mosquito-borne disease killed roughly 580,000 people in the region, according to the World Health ...

The African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) says a 30 per cent cut in malaria financing can lead to 146 million additional malaria cases in Africa by 2030.

Global malaria cases have been on the rise in recent years, according to the World Health Organization. (WHO) Universal Corporation Limited, a unit of Strides Pharma Science, became the first African ...

Malaria exploded this year in the Ethiopian city of Dire Dawa, which saw more than 10 times as many cases between January and May as it did in all of 2019. What made this spike in cases unusual is ...

A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of testing of a malaria vaccine in Kenya. The vaccine - Mosquirix - is the world ...

The theme for Africa Malaria Day 2005 is Unite Against Malaria while the accompanying slogan is Together We Can Beat Malaria. When ? 25 April 2005 Why ? AMD commemorates the day in 2000, when African ...