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Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot...

In spite of decades of progress against the diseases being reversed by Covid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria received $14.25 billion on Wednesday at a donor meeting hosted by US President Joe...

UNICEF has awarded a contract for the first ever supply of a malaria vaccine to GSK with a value of up to USD 170 million. The landmark award will lead to 18 million doses of RTS,S/AS01...

China was certified as malaria-free on Wednesday by the World Health Organization, following a 70-year effort to eradicate the mosquito-borne disease. The country reported 30 million cases of the infectious disease annually in the 1940s but...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified China as a malaria-free country. The world’s second-largest economy has had to wait seven decades to be free of the mosquito-borne disease. NDTV news. In the 1940s, 30 million...

India will allow some exports of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump urged New Delhi to release supplies of the drug scene as a possible treatment for...

A future free of malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can be achieved as early as 2050, according to a new report published by The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication. Authored by 41...

GM Fungus enhanced to produce spider toxin – can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests. Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso, showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within...

A new study has found that combining malaria genetic data with human mobility data from mobile networks can help map and predict the spread of drug-resistant malaria. The study was conducted by the Harvard TH Chan...

Childhood malaria episodes could be reduced by 20% — from 2.49 to 2 cases per child — during malaria transmission season if the whole population were given a drug called ivermectin every three weeks, according to...