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). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
The Banavara primary health centre ( phc ) in district Hassan, Karnataka, recorded 8,028 malaria cases in 1995. Reason: the high percentage of migrant labourers from Andhra Pradesh who work as stone cutters in the Chikkur railway line conversion project. In 1995, the mrc expanded its work in Kanakatte and …
What do the field experiences tell us? Firstly, bioenvironmental management can be a working alternative to contain malaria. The science of the methodology is sound. Secondly, the efforts of the mrc and the vcrc proved to be successful in the short term but failed in the long term due to …
It is very interesting to compare the costs of carrying out bioenvironmental control measures and chemical spray ing. "It is the cheapest way of preventing malaria, cheaper even than DDT,' confirms V P Sharma, director, Malaria Research Centre, New Delhi. "And on a national basis, it will turn out even …
from 2.2 million cases in 1993, the incidence of malaria in India has grown to more than 3 million cases in 1997. And, it is still growing. Even as you read, the malaria parasite is developing resistance to the latest drugs, having already taught its genes how to digest earlier …
global warming is causing a resurgence in mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across the world. These diseases are spreading from Kenya to New Guinea and South America
A taskforce of foreign policy makers recently suggested that an analysis unit should be set up at the United Nations (UN) to facilitate Security Council's decision-making. Lord Carrington, the UK foreign secretary and chairperson of the task force, said that he was "worried about the gap between the readiness of …
Artemether, the drug used as the last line of defence against malaria is being widely used in Africa. But experts have cautioned that the drug should not be used until resistance to the traditional drug, quinine, becomes ineffective. By prescribing Artemether - mainly to wealthy patients - even before testing …
the importance of maintaining cultures of malarial parasite called plasmodium is evident in the wake of growing menace of malaria. The cultures help in carrying basic biological research that can later be used for designing effective therapies for the disease. Majority of the research involves characterising the dna of the …
Malaria cases in Venezuela are poised to jump by more than a third next year. Researchers studying statistics covering nearly half a century say that a steep rise in malaria cases always follows after an El Ni
the Indian government has procured a hefty loan of us $203.9 (Rs 741.5 crore approximately) from the World Bank to tackle malaria by the year 2002. Under the programme, National Malaria Eradication Programme ( nmep ) of the ministry of health and family welfare will manage the funds and work …
One of the four captive bred Siberian cranes released in the Keolandeo National Park near Bharatpur last year has died. The carcass of the dead bird has been sent to the agriculture university at Hisar in Haryana for a post-mortem to ascertain the cause of death. To check the increasing …
On what makes the Enhanced Malaria Control Project unique: The project is unique due to two reasons - decentralised planning and the adoption of a variety of strategies. Decentralised planning has changed the role of the National Malaria Eradication Programme (nmep) to that of a facili-tator, financier and evaluator. Actual …
> The discovery of the parasite that causes malaria is credited to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army physician working in Algeria. Laveran's work, published in 1880, was received with scepticism by leading malariologists at the time. Little was known about the disease and it was believed that it …
researchers at the New York University Medical Centre have recently identified a protein on the surface of the single-celled malaria parasite, Plasmodium , which helps it to invade human liver and blood cells. The find, the second such in the past year, has created ripples of excitement among scientists. An …
considering the amount of money that has gone into it, failure to control malaria is one of the more outstanding setbacks on the health front in independent India. According to an estimate, malaria cost the country between us $0.5 and 1 billion (Rs 1787.5 and 3575 crore) in 1991. In …
Even as humankind exults in having unlocked the secrets of the insect kingdom, the war between humans and insects is far from over. Several conflicts between humans and insects have been won by humans, but they have been hollow victories at best. In its desire to beat the pests, humanity …
west bengal is sitting on a malaria time bomb. According to the deputy chief medical officer of health of Purulia district in West Bengal, Asit Biswas, over 17,000 people in Purulia are carrying the dreaded cerebral malarial parasite in their blood. Speaking at a recent seminar on the eradication of …
A new method of treating or preventing malaria has come to light with the discovery of the protein that makes the disease lethal. The parasite Plasmodium falciparum , that causes cerebral malaria, annually infects about 300 million people, of which two to three million die. The parasite invades red blood …
In June, for the first time, malaria control was included in the ;agenda of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Zimbabwe. ReportedN, nine out of 10 cases occur in sub- Saharan Africa. Campaigners called upon international organisations to cooperate in a 30-year old programme for developing measures to …
