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3.09.2004
The Untolerable Burden of Malaria: II What's new, What's Needed [American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene] — (English)
No 2 Supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 71, August 2004...
"Serious" and "severe" adverse drug reactions need defining [BMJ] — (English)
In her editorial on the new guidelines for preventing malaria in UK travellers Zuckerman claims that a recent double blinded study showed high tolerability to the four recommended drug regimens, with no serious adverse events. Unfortunately, neither Zuckerman nor the cited study defines the term "serious."...
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Accord to jointly fight malaria in border areas [Dawn] — (English)
A three-day cross-border meeting on malaria concluded with a decision of establishing Border Coordination Committees (BCC) with its members drawn from the border districts for the execution of anti-malaria plan in the border areas of all three countries...
Placental Malaria Increases Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission- Expert [This Day] — (English)
Placental malaria infection during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has revealed...
2.09.2004
Steps to check spread of malaria urged [Dawn] — (English)
Border areas of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran are faced with the problem of malaria caused by the cross-border movement of people affected by malarial parasite and there is a need to put in place measures to check the spread of the disease in these areas...
Study: Severe Malaria Can be Detected in Eyes [VoA] — (English)
Doctors looking for signs of severe malaria can find them in the eyes. That's according to a new study in the Archives of Ophthalmology...
Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents [Medical News Today] — (English)
Repellents that block gene might help fight malaria and other infectious diseases...
Malaria strikes [Statesman ] — (English)
Out of a total 7,879 blood samples tested for malaria in the last week of August, 2,354 have been found positive...
1.09.2004
Health-Zambia: Poverty Stifling War On Malaria [Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)] — (English)
Zambia's quest to fight Malaria has come under an unprecedented challenge as it scales up to overcome an epidemic that is claiming an average of 50,000 lives a year...
Association between climate variability and malaria epidemics in the East African highlands [PNAS] — (English)
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Researchers call for action against Anopheles gambiae mosquito [The Lancet Infectious Diseases] — (English)
The escape from Africa of the mosquitoes that carry the deadliest form of malaria, the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, could cause a public health catastrophe, warned malaria experts this month...
TANZANIA: Searching for a solution to the malaria crisis [IRIN NEWS] — (English)
In the next six years, the number of Tanzanians killed by malaria could be halved. They just need to start using insecticide-treated nets, medical experts say...
A Guide to Research on Care-seeking for Childhood Malaria [Basics II] — (English)
The Guide is a manual for researchers who will plan and implement a study on care-seeking for childhood malaria. It provides a care-seeking model and research protocol (set of field guides) and offers guidance on implementing the research, adapting the protocol to different settings, planning logistical aspects of the study, conducting data analysis, and writing the research report....
Alarming rise in malaria, but its cyclical: Govt [Express India] — (English)
THE Government on Wednesday admitted that cases of malaria have increased alarmingly in the State this year, as compared to the previous year. It, however, attributed the rise in malaria cases to the malaria cyclic that occurs across the country after every decade or so...
Malaria bug bites, Rajkot civic body readies for action [Express India] — (English)
EVEN as thirty-two cases of malaria were reported from Rajkot city, State Health Minister I K Jadeja declared Rajkot district as malaria-affected on Monday. Despite this, the RMC geared up for action only on Wednesday...
New drug for malaria [Papua New Guinea Post] — (English)
SCIENTISTS working in Australia have developed a synthetic drug that is set to become a major weapon in the world war against multi-drug resistant malaria. Nicknamed Oz, the development of the drug by an international team of scientists at Monash University in Melbourne has been described as the biggest breakthrough in malaria treatment of our generation...
31.09.2004
Travellers could stop malaria from spreading [IoL] — (English)
New research suggests that travellers already infected in south-east Asia with a particular drug-resistant form of the malaria parasite are behind the increase in drug resistance in Africa...
KYRGYZSTAN: More than 30 people hospitalised with malaria in south [IRINNEWS] — (English)
More than 30 people with malaria have been hospitalised in southern Kyrgyzstan over the past week, local health officials told IRIN on Tuesday...
Cunene: Fight Agianst Malaria Joins Three SADC Countries [Angola Press Agency (Luanda)] — (English)
Health technicians from Angola, Namibia and South Africa on Monday here started a 2-day meeting meant to outline a plan of common action of efficient control of malaria at the transbordering regions of the three countries...
Rialisation ` Ondjiva d'un forum tripartite sur la malaria [Angola Press Agency (Luanda)] — (Français)
Des spicialistes de la santi d'Angola, de la Namibie et de l'Afrique du Sud participent depuis lundi, ` Ondjiva, chef-lieu de la province de Cunene (sud), ` un forum tripartite destini ` tracer un plan commun de contrtle efficace de la malaria dans la rigion trans-frontalihre de trois pays...
30.09.2004
Kapchorwa Trains Drug Distributors [New Vision (Kampala)] — (English)
About 260 drug distributors in Kapchorwa district have been trained on the management of malaria, the district director for health services, Dr. Alfred Boyo, has said...
Other recent publications
JOURNAL OF VECTOR BORNE DISEASES Mar-Jun 2004, Vol 41, No 1-2 [(formerly 'Indian Journal of Malariology')] — (English)
Malaria specific-IgG, inter-pregnancy intervals, birth weights and body mass index in cases of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia; Epidemiological and entomological aspects of malaria in forestfringed villages of Sonitpur district, Assam ; Evaluation of pirimiphos-methyl (50% EC) against the immatures of Anopheles stephensi/An. culicifacies (malaria vectors) and Culex quinquefasciatus (vector of bancroftian filariasis); Altitudinal distribution of mosquitoes in mountainous area of Garhwal region : PartI; Assessment of knowledge about malaria among patients reported with fever: a hospital-based study; Outdoor resting preference of Culex tritaeniorhynchus, the vector of Japanese encephalitis in Warangal and Karim Nagar districts, Andhra Pradesh; Variations in ornamentation of wings and palpi of Anopheles(Cellia) subpictus Grassi collected from northwest India; A report on the susceptibility status of Anopheles minimus (Theobald) against DDT and deltamethrin in three districts of Assam...
Activity Report 134. National Malaria Prevalence Survey [Environmental Health Project (EHP)] — (English)
Eritrea's Ministry of Health leads the country's inter-sectoral National Malaria Control Program (NMCP). The NMCP began implementing a five-year plan of action in October 1999, developed as part of the international Roll Back Malaria partnership initiative. One of the NMCP's highest priorities was to improve its understanding of the distribution of malaria...
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