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COVID-19 Threatens to Derail Fight Against HIV, TB and Malaria
BY PETER SANDS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL FUND IN Voices ON 27 May 2020 The following is a heavily abridged version of Peter Sands’ remarks to the 43rd Board Meeting 14-15 May – the first Board meeting to be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 ravages the world, […]
Malaria parasite ticks to its own internal clock
When a person gets malaria, a rhythmic dance takes place inside their body. The disease’s telltale signs — cyclical fevers and chills — are caused by successive broods of parasites multiplying in sync inside red blood cells, then bursting out in unison every few days. Now, a study shows that […]
Coronavirus: Why Nigeria continues to use hydroxychloroquine despite WHO advice
Even though say World Health Organization don stop testing of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as possible treatment for coronavirus, Director General of di National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) wey dey torchlight melecine matter for Nigeria, Dr Mojisola Adeyeye say di kontri go kontinu clinical trials of […]
Coronavirus hampers Africa’s fight against malaria, TB
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, […]
Four ways to combat Malaria in the time of COVID-19
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 […]
Humans Inoculated with Genetically Modified Malaria Parasites
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 […]
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Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine trial begins in the UK
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. […]
Namibia’s north see surge in malaria deaths
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, […]
Why malaria treatment shouldn’t take a back seat to COVID-19
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 […]