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Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figures
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Climate complexities stoke disease controversies
Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.
The pros and cons of GM mosquitoes
A proposal for tackling dengue fever has caused controversy because it would involve releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild.
FEATURE | 30 June 2009 | EN
Massive potential in miniature microscopes
A tiny solar-powered microscope with no lens could be a cheap and disposable alternative for malaria diagnosis
FEATURE | 8 June 2009 | EN
Rapid diagnostic tests: The way forward?
Rapid diagnostic tests potentially present a quick, easy-to-use solution for improved malaria diagnosis. But are they the way to go?
FEATURE | 25 September 2008 | EN
Zambia sets an example in malaria control
Researchers in Zambia are trying to eradicate malaria in rural areas, reduce deaths and set an example in malaria control.
Turning plants into pills in Kenya
Traditional healers are joining forces with plant chemists in Kenya to develop antimalarials isolated from plants, reports Tatum Anderson.
FEATURE | 13 December 2007 | EN
Resistance spreads: malaria in South-East Asia
Jill McGivering and Ed Cropley report on how fake drugs and poor education increase resistance to antimalarials in South-East Asia.
Island trial for China's malaria mass treatment
Chinese researchers hope to trial a 'mass treatment' approach to malaria on an African island, reports David Lague.
China's malaria wars: the battle over monotherapy
The debate goes on over China's ongoing production of malaria monotherapy, which is thought to promote drug resistance. Jane Wu reports.
Bottlenecks slow Ethiopia's fight against malaria
Ethiopia is working hard to combat malaria, report Julie Clayton and Kennedy Abwao, but delays and gaps in the system still threaten lives.
FEATURE | 11 October 2006 | EN
Kenya's paradox: top research but malaria still rages
Wandera Ojanji reports on why so many Kenyans die of malaria, despite their nation producing some of the world's top research on the disease.
FEATURE | 8 March 2006 | EN
Rolling out long-life mosquito nets: Africa's challenge
Jon Snow reports from Africa on efforts to increase production of improved insecticide-treated bednets that last for years not months.
FEATURE | 6 January 2006 | EN
Married to malaria
Marcos Pivetta interviews a husband-and-wife team who have spent decades researching malaria together.
FEATURE | 14 January 2005 | EN
Uganda tests its traditional anti-malaria 'drugs'
A Ugandan researcher is running clinical evaluations to assess the safety of traditional medicines used against malaria, reports Peter Wamboga-Mugirya.
FEATURE | 7 January 2005 | EN
Making anti-malaria advances accessible to the poor
Scientific breakthroughs in the fight against malaria tend to remain out of reach for the poor but some initiatives bring them closer by subsidising costs.
FEATURE | 3 December 2004 | EN
Treating malaria with herbal medicines
Merlin L Willcox and Gerard Bodeker review research on traditional herbal medicines used to treat malaria.
FEATURE | 12 November 2004 | EN
Bringing traditional cures into Uganda's health system
Federica Bianchi reports from Uganda on the moves to integrate traditional medicine into the country's health system.
FEATURE | 15 October 2004 | EN
Blocking the mosquito scent trail
A gene controlling insects' sense of smell could yield a new tool against diseases such as malaria, as scientists have found that blocking the gene can stop insects from finding their way about.
FEATURE | 23 September 2004 | EN
Mosquito protein could lead to 'smart pesticide'
Researchers trying to develop a way of killing mosquitoes without harming other species, hope that blocking an insect protein could be the answer.
FEATURE | 17 September 2004 | EN
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