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Pope Benedict's qualified backing of condom use to help prevent AIDS marks a small breakthrough for efforts to fight the scourge in Africa, giving health workers and clergy more scope to broach a still-taboo subject.
News of the pontiff's comments in a book came days before a U.N. report on Tuesday showed that even Africa was making inroads into the epidemic, with a fall in infection rates ove
Cuba has announced plans to build biolarvicide factories in Brazil and several African countries in a bid to tackle malaria and dengue fever.
Biolarvicides are biological products that are added to water to kill mosquitoes at the larval stage. Labiofam - the Cuban laboratory in charge of the project - has been producing two biolarvicides, Bactivec and Griselesf, since the 1990s. The products c
Australian scientists have found a unique way to block a malaria infection, opening up a new front in the war on the mosquito-borne parasite which infects 400 million people every year.
Researchers at the Melbourne-based Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research have identified an alternative method to that used by conventional treatments, which kills off the parasite once it has ga
Pretoria — When the biggest names in soccer arrive in South Africa within the next few days, winning the World Cup will not be their only mission.
While the likes of Matthew Booth, Teko Modise, Leo Messi and Thierry Henri will display their football talents on the field, they will also lend their voices to a worthy cause off the pitch.
The soccer players and some of South Africa's biggest s
In the first three days of the nationwide measles vaccination campaign, 1 281 629 children were immunized against the disease, or approximately 25% of the almost 5 million target.[1] Almost 500 000 children also received vitamin A supplements.
Several teams of supervisors from the national level today started monitoring to make any needed adjustments to the campaign, which is due to end 2 June
In an effort to protect children and pregnant women in the Central African Republic (CAR) from malaria, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today said it was working with the Government to provide each household across the country with at least one mosquito net treated with long-lasting insecticides.
The campaign is intended to reach 896,000 households in the coming months, the agency
NAIROBI, 28 May 2010 (PlusNews) - Making services for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) available without addressing the factors that keep mothers from accessing these services was an exercise in futility, experts told a press briefing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
ZANZIBAR CITY, Tanzania, 27 April 2010 – As the world celebrated World Malaria Day this past weekend, some regions reflected on recent strides made toward eradicating the disease. Among the world’s malaria success stories is the Island of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous part of Tanzania, off the coast of eastern Africa.
Malaria was once a leading child killer throughout Tanzania. As in many countr
Scientists have discovered thousands of potential new drug compounds for tackling malaria.
Malaria, caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes, kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, with the highest disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa, and resistance to existing drugs threatens to make it even deadlier.
But now, two papers in Nature report on a variety of chemicals, each active
