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Health: Malaria

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Controlling a disease as entrenched as malaria, which kills over one million people a year is an enormous challenge. New policies, strategies and solutions are urgently needed.

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Opinions and Analysis

Research needed to tackle neglected disease uncertainties

The revised malaria death toll suggests a need for research into uncertainties in controlling neglected tropical diseases, says Mark Booth.

7 February 2012 | EN
Source: New Statesman

Biomed Analysis: Learning from India's polio success

India's carefully targeted strategy against polio holds lessons for other countries, and for other diseases, argues Priya Shetty.

31 January 2012 | EN

Policy Briefs

Controlling insect pests with GM technology

Genetically modified insects provide a new method for controlling insect-borne diseases and agricultural insect pests.

8 July 2010 | EN
Source: The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

bednetKenya_Flickr_DFID Policies to reduce malaria regardless of climate change

Policies to combat malaria are needed regardless of climate change, which has a far smaller impact on the disease than human activity.

9 September 2009 | EN
Source: Sustainable Development Network


News and Features

Young girl having blood drawn as part of malaria trial Scientists dispute basis for malaria deaths claim

Critics have questioned the methods of a study claiming that the WHO has greatly underestimated the number of malaria fatalities.

10 February 2012 | EN

Mosquitero Suriname reduces malaria cases by 82 per cent in five years

An integrated control programme means Suriname is close to becoming the first Amazonian country to eliminate malaria.

2 February 2012 | ES