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>
<p>Home management of malaria (HMM), promoting presumptive treatment of febrile children in the community, is advocated to improve prompt appropriate treatment of malaria in Africa. The cost-effectiveness of HMM is likely to vary widely in different settings and with the antimalarial drugs used. However, no data on the cost-effectiveness of HMM programmes are available.</p>
Malaria transmission is strongly influenced by environmental temperature, but the biological drivers remain poorly quantified. Most studies analyzing malaria
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<br />The corporate sector has joined hands with the BMC in its war against malaria. As part of their corporate social responsibility, a number of organisations funded the initial lot of the Mosquito Larvicidal (ML) oil that the BMC procured on Saturday from the Indian Oil Corporation. It is believed that this oil would help control mosquito breeding in the city.<br />
The civic body is taking all chances to check spread of malaria. On Wednesday, it sent samples of mosquito larvicidal (ML) oil it had stopped using since almost two years for testing to Haffkine Institute in Parel. If the report suggests that the oil is effective in destroying mosquito larvae, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will shell out Rs1.62 crore to procure it.<br />
<br /><p>New Delhi: In what could probably be a cause of worry for the Delhi government, the local civic body has found mosquitoes breeding at seven Commonwealth Games sites. It has issued notices to the officials concerned.</p>
<br />Mumbai MNS chief Raj Thackeray once again blamed migrants in slums for the spread of malaria, asked party workers to launch a cleanliness drive and blamed the Shiv Sena-BJP-run BMC of giving deflated figures of malaria.<br />
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<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is partnering with 732 advanced locality managements (ALMs) in the city to help curb the malaria menace.</p><p>On Wednesday, the civic body issued circulars asking all ALMs to assist the BMC by detecting mosquito-breeding sites in their wards.</p>