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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
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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
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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
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Source: The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
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
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Source: Sustainable Development Network
News and Features
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
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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
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Bhutan brings down malaria incidence
1 February 2012
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Areas with low malaria rates 'need mass vaccination'
25 January 2012
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