World malaria report 2023
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
Malaria
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Climate change: Delhi government to prepare road map
Worried over the change in climatic conditions and its impact on the health of residents, the Delhi government's health department is preparing a road map on how to deal with the seasonal changes in the
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To strengthen fight against malaria, Maharashtra government to declare it notifiable disease
To intensify its fight against malaria, the state government will soon make it mandatory for health sector stakeholders like doctors, hospitals and diagnostic facilities to report cases of this vector-borne
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Kenya: Malaria Crisis Looms as Floods Continue Destruction Unabated
In addition to the devastating floods and landslides as a result of the ongoing heavy rains, there is an even deadlier danger: The prevailing environment is conducive for the breeding of mosquitoes that
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Despite drastic fall in malaria cases, Gadchiroli tops state
NAGPUR: Though malaria cases have dropped by over 27,000 in Gadchiroli in the last three years, the district continues to have the highest incidence of the disease in not only Nagpur division but also
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No dengue, malaria deaths in Telangana, shows report
HYDERABAD: In 2017, Telangana could have reported at least 35-40 dengue deaths, most of them from Hyderabad. Yet, not one gets reflected in the data complied under the ministry of health and family welfare’s
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115 malaria cases from January to March
PATNA: At least 115 malaria cases were reported across Bihar from January till March this year, as per the monthly surveillance report available on the state health society’s website. Of these, 102 were
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Suffering from malaria? check your kidneys
There are patients who are put on dialysis and then treated with medication for malaria. Hyderabad: Kidney dysfunction is a contributing factor in severe malaria cases according to research carried
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Major overhaul must for end-malaria goal
India contributes the highest malaria cases outside Africa. Hyderabad: With Sri Lanka having officially eradicated malaria in 2016 and China poised to do so by 2020, the question of whether India can
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Health department aims to end indigenous malaria cases by ’20
PANAJI:The directorate of health services (DHS) aims to achieve “zero malaria transmission - annual parasite incidence (API) of less than 1 - by 2020, but it is a mammoth task. The biggest challenge for
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Money and mosquitoes: the economics of malaria in an age of declining aid
On the occasion of World Malaria Day 2018, April 25, the African Development Bank has released Money and Mosquitoes: The Economics of Malaria in an Age of declining Aid. The report examines financing in