For many Nigerians, malaria and its symptoms are all too familiar and quite predictable. Once the pangs of headache, joint pain and fever are felt, most resort to anti-malarial medications to manage ...

President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to fight malaria, ...

Health department urges malaria vigilance as cross-border travel and outbreaks in SADC countries raise infection risk in ...

In Nigeria — home to 30 percent of the world’s annual 600,000 malaria deaths — clinics that once served 300 people a day in the conflict-hit Borno state have abruptly shut down, Ibrahim and other laid ...

but over half of malaria deaths occur in just four countries: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, and Tanzania. The stability and health of these nations are vital to the United ...

Malaria outbreaks have been recorded in neighbouring countries. As a result, health officials have raised the alarm and called for increased vigilance over Easter. Officials are on high alert for ...

KINSHASA, March 25 (Reuters) - Testing has confirmed that an initially unidentified illness that killed more than 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo was malaria, the country's ...

an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to combat malaria, among thousands of cuts revealed in a document prepared by the U.S. Agency ...

Despite decades of efforts focused on mosquito eradication, drug therapies, and vaccines, malaria remains hard to beat, especially in Africa.

This means stakeholders, variously defined, should roll up their sleeves. If the arms of one group of stakeholders are to be ...

Vaccines are a vital new tool to stop children in poor countries falling sick and dying of malaria. Though not perfect, they are a useful supplement to bed nets and anti-mosquito sprays.