Parliamentary Forum on Malaria wants government to dedicate Shillings 250 billion to fighting malaria for a period of five years Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Parliamentary Forum on Malaria is calling for the mainstreaming of the fight against malaria as a means to kick the disease completely out of the …
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✳ High-level vaccine efficacy of 77% in African children achieve WHO-specified efficacy goal of 75% ✳ Vaccine, trialled in 450 children, shows favourable safety profile and was well-tolerated ✳ Vaccine candidate, R21/Matrix-M, has excellent potential for large-scale manufacturing and low-cost supply London, UK | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers from the …
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Long-term investments, use of real-time data to inform malaria interventions and youth-led campaigns are key to boosting progress towards disease elimination in Africa Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Countries across the sub-Saharan African region should explore fiscal incentives that can stimulate investments in malaria control programs amid the quest to eradicate …
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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lira district has registered a 15 per cent reduction in Malaria prevalence, thanks to the Indoor- Residual Spray (IRS) program. IRS is the application of long-lasting insecticides in residences to either kill or repel the mosquitoes. It is believed to be suitable for Uganda because …
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Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Serere district is set to start the second phase of Indoor Residual Spraying in another intervention to eradicate malaria, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda. The spraying exercise is part of a five-year USAID-funded project in several districts of Eastern Uganda. …
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Climate change, floods and droughts are fuelling the spread of pathogens that are resistant to drugs Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Extreme weather events linked to climate change, including floods and droughts, are fuelling the spread of vector-borne diseases in the East and Horn of African region, experts said on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government has been asked to pay more attention to scientific evidence in its control and elimination programmes. Speaking at an inaugural lecture on science in malaria control on Tuesday, Dr James Kananura Tibenderana a global malaria expert said while Uganda has programmes that …
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Budaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several households in Budaka district are opposed to the ongoing Indoor Residual Spraying-IRA program citing various concerns. Budaka district health department launched the IRS program on Monday with the aim of fighting malaria in the district. The exercise which commenced on March 1st, 2021 covering …
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Budaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Budaka district will next month embark on indoor residual spraying. The one month exercise which will begin on March 1 and end on April 1 will target more than 62,000 households across the entire district which comprises of 20 sub-counties. The Budaka district indoor residual …
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Beijing, China | PD CHINA | Tu Youyou, an outstanding Chinese scientist who has made great strides with the development of a key anti-malarial drug artemisinin, was in 2020 elected as one of the 100 Women of the Year by Time magazine. Having devoted more than 40 years of her life to …
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