Undark
28 December 2020
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Central African Republic
When the coronavirus pandemic caused lockdowns in Africa, many community members became hesitant to continue taking part in malaria prevention efforts for fear of contracting COVID-19, so health care workers began visiting people at their own homes to deliver both malaria and coronavirus information. Since the effort started, more people have begun to go back to the hospitals for treatment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/malaria-deaths-dropped-below-half-a-million-in-past-year-who_us_5668517ee4b080eddf56598c
Kate Kelland
The Huffington Post
9 December 2015
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The number of people killed by malaria dropped below half a million in the past year, reflecting vast progress against the mosquito-borne disease in some of the previously hardest-hit areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Mosquito nets have proven widely successful.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/the-fight-against-fake-drugs
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
4 June 2014
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In many poor countries, counterfeit medicines are an enormous problem. A quarter-million malaria deaths each year might be prevented if the patients were treated with real drugs instead of fake ones.
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/24/malaria-scheme-cuts-child-deaths-sahel-rainy-season-access-smc-project
Clár Ní Chonghaile
The Guardian
24 June 2016
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Malaria vaccine distribution systems in Africa's Sahel region are facing bottleneck in their supply chains, but are working to get help from the government and to piggyback on other aid systems.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/malaria-prevention-with-both-reward-and-risk
Amy Maxmen
The New York Times
25 June 2014
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After ongoing trials and successes for preventative measures toward malaria, experts have now reversed their support for them. In what remains an ongoing threat, especially to children, new interventions, like the combination of multiple malaria drugs, are being tried, tested, and showing promise.
https://medium.com/the-development-set/the-unrelenting-specter-of-drug-resistant-malaria-da11f736c973#.hrmishhmt
Sarika Bansal
Bright Magazine
29 March 2016
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Every time scientists think they’ve controlled malaria, drug resistance pops up in Southeast Asia. What will it take to stop a deadly global comeback of the disease?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/malaria-consortium-volunteers-village-health-teams-mozambique-neglected-tropical-diseases_us_583dafaae4b06539a78a76a3
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
The Huffington Post
24 February 2017
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In Nampula, Mozambique, people living in remote, rural communities do not seek medical attention when they get sick because of myths that diseases are caused by spirits. So a non-profit, Malaria Consortium, is training ordinary people, to teach others about the cause and treatments of common illnesses thus motivating the villagers to seek care at health facilities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/health/sri-lanka-declared-free-of-malaria.html?_r=2
Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times
12 September 2016
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Sri Lanka has been fighting malaria for decades with more than 500,000 cases a year. Since 2013 the country has been malaria free by putting mobile clinics near the camps of itinerant workers and offering diagnosis and treatment to anyone without asking any questions of their immigration status.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/sep/28/healers-cure-mistrust-guinea-health-system-after-horrors-ebola
Ruth Maclean
The Guardian
28 September 2016
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In South Africa, when a person is sick they visit their local healer, but during the Ebola outbreak the healers with little knowledge of the disease often became infected and infected others. So the government in Guinea persuaded healers to receive a health care training and to refer patients to the hospital.
https://www.devex.com/news/lessons-from-sri-lanka-on-malaria-elimination-88816
Catherine Cheney
Devex
15 December 2016
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Efforts to eliminate malaria from Sri Lanka led to only 17 cases one year, but failure to continue health safety practice allowed the number of cases to rise again to over 200,000 in 1999. In 2016 Sri Lanka celebrates it’s 5th year of being malaria free, thanks to consistent vector control, access, surveillance and treatment.
https://howwegettonext.com/the-machine-and-the-mosquito-29205f61e811?gi=d83a30c8c05f
Greg Noone
How We Get to Next
15 September 2017
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Mosquito transmitted diseases are only becoming more prevalent due to climate change, posing a global health risk. Various methods are being tested such as genetic modification and gene drives, Project DiSARM-uses technology to map where to spray insecticide, and introduction of Wolbachia-a bacterial disease that decreases mosquitos' ability to reproduce-into the environment.
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