By Shabibah Nakirigya Malaria — related deaths and infections have been halved under the auspices of Malaria Consortium’s Malaria Action Programme for Districts (MAPD). The five-year programme, which started in 2017, covered 53 districts in conjunction with stakeholders such as District Health Teams (DHT). Speaking at the project’s official closure yesterday, Mr Sam Gudoi, the […]
For thousands of years, malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the confusion around the transmission of this disease. It was only following the discovery of malaria parasites in the gut of Anopheles mosquitoes in India […]
Malaria is one of the world’s leading causes of illness and death. Around 229 million people are infected each year and more than 400,000 of them die. The spread of malaria can be controlled by careful and coordinated community-based management. This includes the distribution of insecticide-coated bed nets, drug treatment, and diagnostic testing when available. Diagnostic testing […]
SciDev.Net By Gilbert Nakweya An invasive weed could escalate the spread of malaria in East Africa after scientists found new evidence that it creates a favourable breeding ground for female mosquitoes, which transmit malaria. In a study published in Scientific Reports last month, researchers found that the plant is popularly known as “famine weed” releases chemicals called terpene […]
For the first time, scientists have shown that a new kind of genetic engineering can crash populations of malaria-spreading mosquitoes. In the landmark study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers placed the genetically modified mosquitoes in a special laboratory that simulated the conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, where they spread the deadly disease. The male mosquitoes […]
