Tag: Malaria

After decades of work, the World Health Organisation endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine last year - a historic milestone that ...

The WHO said on Wednesday the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a ...

Coronavirus vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time, but as global rollout has progressed, too few doses have ...

South African scientists have discovered chemical compounds that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, ...

The Department of Health in Limpopo is simultaneously screening for coronavirus and malaria as patients for both diseases show similar ...

Health experts are confident that malaria can be eliminated in South Africa in the next three years. This would be ...

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says efforts to fight and eliminate malaria have been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. He says ...

An old malaria treatment that has been tried with some success against the new coronavirus and was touted by US ...

The National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) says Malaria cases are expected to increase during the summer months with higher ...

The National Institute for Communicable Disease (NICD) has warned travelers to various parts of the country and continent to look ...

Malaria still infects millions of people every year and kills more than 400,000 - mostly children in Africa - because ...

Health experts at the tenth annual Child Health Priorities conference say while breast milk has high nutritional value, it's exposure ...

International donors pledged $14 billion to fight diseases including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis at a Global Fund summit in the ...

Researchers from the University of Pretoria are conducting a study in the country after recording a rise in the number ...

Malaria is a top killer of children under five in the East African nation, and the vaccine is critically important ...

Limpopo's health department is aiming at significantly reducing malaria cases in 2019. The province has seen a number of people ...

Eradicating malaria is biologically feasible and a lofty aim, the World Health Organization said on Friday, but the focus for ...

The death of a six-year-old YouTube star from a malaria epidemic in Burundi has spotlighted the growing challenge of combating ...

Abigal Aguanyi, a trader and mother in the West African nation of Ghana, knows first-hand how dangerous malaria can be ...