German Pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus vaccine with US giant Pfizer in record time, said on Monday it aimed to start trialling a malaria vaccine by next year. The vaccine would be using the same breakthrough mRNA technology which is at the core of Covid-19 vaccines to help fight the mosquito-borne disease, which […]
By Prof Stephen Gbedema Background: Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance is a major public health challenge in sub-Sahara Africa. Many people are now resorting to the use of herbs in managing malaria due to the increasing treatment failures with conventional drugs. In this study, the ethanolic extract of Polyalthia longifolia (Sonn) Thw. var. pendula, a variety […]
By Nasibo Kabale Global efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 have pushed the fight against malaria to the back burner. This shift of focus is so dire that the World Health Organization (WHO) now warns that “by the end of 2020, more people will have died of malaria than Covid-19”. The United Nations health […]
