The new bottle presentation may be more beneficial for patients who are making shorter trips to malaria endemic locations. Arakoda ® (tafenoquine) is now available in an 8-count bottle format, ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But ...

University of the Witwatersrand - Edson Mwebesa, Fellow at the Wits-based Sub-Saharan Africa Advanced Consortium for Biostatistics (SSACAB), knows children who died from late-diagnosed malaria. His ...

Mosquitoes are one of the deadliest animals on Earth because they transmit diseases including malaria, which is thought to be responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 people every year. Many of them ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a synthetic compound that has the potential to treat malaria and block its transmission.

The fight against malaria is a test of human intelligence against mosquitoes — and so far, our minuscule winged enemy is winning. But new results shared this week show substantial improvements in one ...

On a sunny afternoon under a tree, a group of Community Health Promoters and local community members have gathered. This informal yet critical meeting is part of an ongoing effort to tackle malaria, ...

Heavy rains and flooding in Limpopo have led to a surge in malaria cases, with 12 deaths reported. The provincial Department ...

A new study, jointly led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) ...

The Mpumalanga Department of Health issued a malaria alert following the recent floods, reports Lowvelder. “Standing water creates breeding grounds for malaria mosquitoes, increasing infection risks,” ...