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African countries have imposed tough measures against COVID-19. But it may come at the cost of other untreated diseases such as malaria and AIDS. As early as February – when the coronavirus outbreak was still almost exclusively restricted to China –experts were raising the alarm: Once the virus arrived in Africa, the continent’s poor healthcare system meant …
Globally there are more than 5.1 million cases of COVID-19 with most cases currently in high income countries. The U.S. and Europe are responsible for 72% of COVID-19 cases, 63% of recoveries and 82% of deaths. In contrast, World Health organization estimates there were 228 million cases of malaria and 405,000 deaths due to malaria worldwide in 2018. Africa …
Two clinical trials, in which subjects were vaccinated with genetically engineered Plasmodium parasites and later exposed to the malaria-causing microbe, showed the vaccines to be safe with promising, but not ideal, efficacy. Results of the trials are published in two papers in Science Translational Medicine today (May 20). “Within the malaria control and elimination space, we do need additional tools, so . …
A trial to see whether two anti-malarial drugs could prevent Covid-19 has begun in Brighton and Oxford. Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or a placebo will be given to more than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. All the participants are staff who are in contact with Covid-19 patients. US President Donald Trump was …
Namibia has reported a sharp increase in malaria cases and deaths in the north of the country amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the country’s health minister said Tuesday. While the country is dealing with COVID-19, it is also faced with other health challenges, such as malaria, hepatitis E and tuberculosis, said Minister of Health and …
Ridding the world of malaria in the near future is a very ambitious goal. Efforts to achieve it have already been weakened by governments shifting resources from malaria control and elimination initiatives to the fight against COVID-19. And those efforts were recently dealt another sucker-punch. Catharina Boehme is the chief executive of the Foundation for Innovative New …
PRESS RELEASE By Nigeria Health Watch 11 May 2020 – In response to mounting concerns around the impact of COVID-19 on malaria elimination efforts across the African continent, the African members of the End Malaria Council have released a joint statement and a four-pronged action plan calling on African and global leaders to act quickly to: protect the …
Yaoundé, Cameroon – Flooding has killed at least 260 people across East Africa, with Kenya the hardest hit country, and Catholic aid experts fear the impact of the disasters caused by heavy rains could both complicate the fight against the coronavirus and also reignite water-borne diseases such as malaria. The pandemic so far has killed …
ide-scale use of insecticide-treated bed nets has led to substantial declines in the global burden of malaria in recent years; however, evidence from a number of locations suggests that mosquitoes might be changing their biting behavior in order to avoid contact with these nets,” said Matthew Thomas, professor and Huck Scholar in Ecological Entomology, Penn …
