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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Fighting malaria with fish
Shillong, March 18: With malaria being a perennial menace in the State, the Meghalaya Government has turned to a fish variety to kill mosquito at larval stage.
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824 GHMC teams to take on malaria
Hyderabad, March 16: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has intensified its anti-larval operations by deploying 824 teams that will cover all the houses in the city, at least once a week, to curb the mosquito menace. The GHMC additional commissioner, health, Mr Sk Aleem Basha, appealed to the citizens to allow the GHMC teams into the houses for the spraying operations.
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Pollution board threatens to hit Wankhede for a six
Mumbai: The renovation of Wankhede stadium is polluting the environment. On inspecting the area, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has found a rise in the level of pollutants in the air and groundwater.
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How might Indias public health systems be strengthened? Lessons from Tamil Nadu
The central government
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2.28 lakh bitten by malaria bug
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, March 5: Official facts and figures paint a far from healthy picture of Jharkhand.
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Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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Bid to check vector-borne diseases ahead of the Games
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has set up 22 surveillance posts to combat the spread of dengue, chikungunya and malaria ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the Capital.
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A World Malaria Map: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2007
Efficient allocation of resources to intervene against malaria requires a detailed understanding of the contemporary spatial distribution of malaria risk. It is exactly 40 y since the last global map of malaria endemicity was published. This paper describes the generation of a new world map of Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity for the year 2007.
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Guidelines for the treatment of malaria
The purpose of this document is to provide comprehensible, global, evidence based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria.
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Clarification needed on bio-safety of GM mosquitoes
S.Elango , Director of Public Health (right), having a word with S.S.Vasan, head of Public Health, Oxitec Limited, U.K., at the Asian Biosafety Training meeting in Madurai on Monday. Madama Bouare , African scientist (centre), is in the picture.