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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Malaria clinics of KMC without doctors
This can happen only in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Apparently, malaria clinics of the civic body are being run not by doctors but by laboratory technicians and pharmacists, with the latter also prescribing medicine to patients who visit these clinics. A senior official of the health department of KMC said, over the past one year no doctor has been assigned to look
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Malaria remains Mizorams biggest killer disease
AIZAWL, Feb 2: Malaria, which claimed 119 lives in Mizoram during last year, remains the biggest killer disease in this Northeast State. According to the Health Department records, 1,71,793 people hot their blood tested and 9,399 had tested positive for malaria during 2009. The victims aged between 1 to 64, of which 40 were females.
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Developing global maps of the dominant anopheles vectors of human malaria
Despite advances in mapping the geographical distribution and intensity of malaria transmission, the ability to provide strategic, evidence-based advice for malaria control programmes remains constrained by the lack of range maps of the dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria.
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Learning to share
By opening up its database of potential malaria drugs, GlaxoSmithKline has blazed a path that other pharmaceutical companies should follow. (Editorial)
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Whats the buzz (editorial)
The Indian Express
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El Nio related health hazards in India
A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.
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Malaria vaccine in advanced stage
RASHME SEHGAL The department of biotechnology is moving at a rapid pace to develop new vaccines to combat tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, rabies, leprosy, HIV AIDS and cancer.
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Meet glare on poor NREGA show
Jamshedpur, Jan. 19: The first meeting of the district managing council at the collectorate today took a look at various development measures to be undertaken in East Singhbhum.
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A spoonful of ingenuity
IN THE old days, the job of eradicating disease fell to governments and inter-governmental bodies. Then charities, often led by celebrities or entrepreneurs, joined in. Finally, in the Western world at least, governments accepted the need to pool their efforts with those of private donors, big and small. The effort still seems unequal to the task.
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Malaria grips Dumka
Malaria is spreading its tentacles from Sahebganj