World malaria report 2023
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
New Delhi: Despite criticism that it should restrict itself to only areas of strategic importance or high-tech weapon systems, DRDO continues to press on regardless in other areas as well.
After malaria caused havoc in 2010, Sion hospital doctors predict a worse situation in 2011. To combat it, the hospital is launching a pilot project in a month, in Bandra.
Mizoram has witnessed a fall in the number of malaria-related deaths in 2010 with only 31 people succumbing to the killer disease, as compared to the counts - 199 in 2009 and 99 in 2008.
<p>Encouraged by the early success of using dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) embarked on the Global Malaria Eradication Program (GMEP) in 1955.
The interruption of malaria transmission worldwide is one of the greatest challenges for international health and development communities.
Today's malaria control efforts are limited by our incomplete understanding of the biology of Plasmodium and of the complex relationships between human populations and the multiple species of mosquito and parasite. Research priorities include the development of in vitro culture systems for the complete life cycle of P. falciparum and P.
The civic body
The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up a controversy.
KATHMANDU, JAN 16 - The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) is formulating a national malaria policy in a bid to eradicate the disease from the country by 2020. The policy aims at early detection
But With 53% Efficacy For 8 Mths, Treatment Still Inadequate For India, Say Experts New Delhi: A malaria vaccine could be a reality by 2015.