On Monday, Cameroon, a country in Central Africa, launched its plan to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine. The campaign is a milestone in the decadeslong effort to stop the disease ...

The war against malaria has racked up some significant successes over the past half century. The testing of a new vaccine and the possibility of genetically modifying malaria-carrying mosquitoes to ...

The U.S. government in mid-December extended the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) to eight nations on the African continent. PMI, initially launched by President George W. Bush in June 2005, ...

Malaria control programs in Amazonian Peru helped reduce the incidence of the deadly parasitic disease by 78 percent. That is, until the programs ceased to operate. Within four years of the programs ...

The Enugu State Commissioner for Health, Professor George Ugwu, has urged media practitioners to intensify public awareness on free malaria testing and treatment, stressing that effective ...

Malaria is rising again in some parts of the world—putting children at renewed risk. Despite being preventable and treatable, progress has stalled or reversed in several countries due to factors like ...

The intensive implementation of currently available tools to fight malaria can achieve a drastic reduction in disease burden, but is not enough to interrupt its transmission. This is the main ...

Malaria in pregnancy (MiP) is a significant public health concern in high-burden malaria countries and a key predictor of ...

Malaria expert Brian Greenwood had once resigned himself to the possibility that a successful vaccine for the disease might not become available in his lifetime. Now, at 86 years old, the moment he’s ...