American woman who got malaria from Ghana sues for amputation
An American woman who got down with malaria after visiting Ghana is suing the hospital that first treated her after her arms and legs were amputated as a result of the disease.The woman, Dawn Dubsky is suing the Northwestern Memorial Hospital for medical malpractice because she says the hospital allowed her condition to deteriorate, the Chicago Tribune reports.According to the report, the 34-year-old woman came to Ghana in February 2008 and came down with malaria after she was bitten by a vector carrying mosquito. She was not taking anti-malarial drugs at the time, it added.
Studies being conducted into managing malaria at the home level
Delay in seeking treatment for children when they have fevers is among some findings in an on-going trial into the home-management of fevers in children aged under-five in the Dangme West District of Ghana.The trial, in its last year, is aimed among others, at getting the community to manage fevers in young children within the home environment.
It is also to measure the impact of the home management of fevers on mortality and morbidity in children.The Dodowa Health Research Centre in the Dangme West district is carrying out the study.
Trial to test anti-malarial drugs takes off
A trial that would provide decision makers across Africa with objective evidence on the safety and effectiveness of new anti-malarial drugs known as artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) has began at the Dodowa Health Research Centre in Ghana.
Other research sites in Kintampo and Navrongo in Ghana together with others in Tanzania, Mozambique and Burkina Faso are to carry out the four-year phase four trials.
A 28-million dollar facility from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding the project.
Dr Margaret Gyapong, Director of the Dodowa Health Research Centre, said data on ACTs would be gathered from 52 chemical shops, house holds and health facilities in the Dangme West District of Ghana, where the Dodowa Research Centre is based.
Study on kits to enhance malaria treatment to begin
A study to promote the rational prescription of anti-malarial drugs among chemical sellers through the introduction and use of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) kits for testing malaria parasites within minutes is to begin at the Dodowa Health Research Centre in Ghana.
Blair in Nigeria to urge fight against malaria
ABUJA — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for concerted efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria which accounts for a quarter of the one million malaria deaths annually in Africa.
Indian police fighting Maoists 'dying of malaria'
More than 100 policemen fighting Maoist rebels in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have died of malaria in the past two years, a police body says. The state police association told the BBC that "mosquitoes were killing more security forces than the rebels."
An American woman who got down with malaria after visiting Ghana is suing the hospital that first treated her after her arms and legs were amputated as a result of the disease.The woman, Dawn Dubsky is suing the Northwestern Memorial Hospital for medical malpractice because she says the hospital allowed her condition to deteriorate, the Chicago Tribune reports.According to the report, the 34-year-old woman came to Ghana in February 2008 and came down with malaria after she was bitten by a vector carrying mosquito. She was not taking anti-malarial drugs at the time, it added.
Blair has called for concerted efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria which accounts for a quarter of the one million malaria deaths annually in Africa.
rebels in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand have died of malaria in the past two years, a police body says. The state police association told the BBC that "mosquitoes were killing more security forces than the rebels." 
AMMREN AGAINST MALARIA 
