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Health Ghana

15. October 2021

Children to Getting Life-Saving Vaccine Against Malaria

The World Health Organization has finally given the green light for African children to receive a life-saving vaccine against malaria – and Ghana, Kenya and Malawi are the first sub-Saharan countries to benefit from the intravenous medicine.

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Health Germany

3. August 2021

Pharmaceutical Giant Plans New Vaccine Against Malaria

The German pharmaceutical company behind the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine is now embarking on a project to create another vaccine, aimed at eradicating Malaria in African countries, and to implement vaccine supply solutions.

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Health China

19. July 2021

This Country Is (Malaria) Free At Last!

Following 70 years of effort, China has finally been declared malaria-free from the World Health Organization, becoming the first western Pacific region to achieve this feat.

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Health Burkina Faso

6. May 2021

This Vaccine May Help Get Rid of Malaria

According to trials on children in Burkina Faso, malaria could be a thing of the past thanks to a highly-effective vaccine that could potentially cut down the death toll enough to envision the eradication of the disease in Africa.

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Health Kenya

18. March 2021

How Mosquito Nets Are Saving Lives in Africa

The distribution of millions of mosquito nets across the African continent has countered the lack of malaria prevention programs and treatments due to the corona pandemic, thus avoiding the doubling of deaths as predicted by the World Health Organization.

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Health El Salvador

11. March 2021

This Country Is Now Malaria-Free – a Regional First!

Following years of commitment and hard work from government, organizations and communities alike, El Salvador become the first Central American country to be officially malaria-free.

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Health United Kingdom

21. May 2020

Tiny Microbe Protects Mosquitos (and Us!) from Malaria

A team of scientists in Kenya and the United Kingdom have discovered a microbe that prevents mosquitoes from getting malaria, in turn protecting people from getting infected by the deadly disease.

Did you know?

Did you know?

1. November 2019

50% drop in Malaria cases in 2018 in India compared to previous year.

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10. September 2019

Our Next Generation Could Be Malaria-Free

41 scientists, economists and health experts have revealed in a major report that the planet can be forever free of malaria – one of the oldest and deadliest diseases – by the year 2050.