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Burkina Faso’s military-led government has suspended the controversial Target Malaria initiative, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation–funded project aimed at combating malaria through the release of genetically modified mosquitoes. Announced Friday (22 August) by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the decision halts all activities and orders the destruction of remaining mosquito samples. Project […]
The head of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, has revealed on March 13 that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering immensely due to the ongoing civil war, facing daily threats of violence, starvation, disease, and sexual assault. Speaking at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, Russell described how the conflict is occurring right […]
Africa continues to bear the heaviest burden of malaria globally, with the disease slashing GDP growth by approximately 1.3 percentage points annually in the most affected nations. This economic drain, resulting from mounting medical costs, widespread absenteeism, and diminished productivity, compounds the public health crisis across the continent. Besides, climate change threatens to worsen the […]
Algeria’s health ministry said Malaria and Diphtheria are spreading in its south on the borders with Mali. The spread highlights the level of marginalization suffered by the Algerian south for decades after the country’s independence. The ministry, however, blamed the spread of the disease on migrants, underscoring a long tradition of blame game by the […]
With rising temperatures, people living in regions across Africa that were once inhospitable to malaria-carrying mosquitoes, including the mountains of eastern Ethiopia and the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, could be newly exposed to the disease, according to latest studies on this topic. As the temperature range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising in elevation as […]
As the World Health Organization (WTO) announces the next step in its distribution of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in three African countries, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, arguably the vaccine’s biggest backer, has raised concerns about its value. WHO endorsed the vaccine, sold by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as Mosquirix, in fall 2021 as […]
Algeria Tuesday registered over 1,000 cases of malaria, one year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country malaria-free. The cases, according to the health ministry, are imported cases and have been spotted in five governorates namely Tamanrasset (918), Adrar (96), Illizi (89), Ouargla (5) and Ghardaïa (2). The ministry noted that every year, […]