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Global Health Investment is a Win-Win Situation
Economists, public officials and humanitarian leaders across the globe are all echoing a new stance on foreign aid: treat it like an investment. Sure, many areas of the world still require immediate...
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Lifespans Increasing In Poorest Countries
Life expectancy has risen in the past two decades by over nine years. Both wealthy and impoverished nations have managed to raise their citizens’ lifespans. In the wealthier countries, less people are...
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3 Organizations Eradicating Malaria
Because of the prevalence of malaria as one of the greatest health crises, many governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been taking action to combat the disease. Below are just...
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10 Facts About Malaria You Need to Know
Though malaria has been eradicated from the United States and Europe, the disease continues to plague many countries, including those in South America, Africa and Asia. As one of the large concerns of...
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Mastering Mosquitoes and Malaria
Malaria kills over a million people each year, taking child and adult victims. Although nets and insecticides have become common defenses against the mosquitoes spreading this disease, scientists have...
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How to Stop Malaria
Malaria seems to be a disease out of sight for most of us, affecting far away people. Malaria used to be present in the United States, but it was wiped out in the 1950s. The mosquitoes, carrying the...
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Determining the Origin of Malaria
Containment is an essential element in minimizing the damage caused by malaria once it presents itself in a community. Knowing where the disease originated for a particular outbreak and understanding...
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Controlling Malaria Outbreaks
Combating poverty drives innovation. In order to reduce the suffering from poverty, countries investigate cost effective methods of preventing poverty and reducing the negative effects of poverty,...
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Causes of Malaria
Malaria, a disease largely eliminated in the developed world, remains a health issue for developing nations. According to World Health Organization estimates, 207 million cases of the deadly disease...
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Malaria Vaccine Underway
On Thursday July 24, GlaxoSmithKline asked European Medicine’s Authority to approve RTS,S, its malaria resistant vaccine, for global use. According to scientists, it is the first vaccine to show...
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Malaria No More
Every 60 seconds, a child dies from a preventable and curable disease that claims the lives of 453,000 children per year—90 percent of those in Africa. Malaria is considered one of the top three...
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Designing a World without Malaria
In 2013, there were around 196 million cases of malaria worldwide and an estimated 584,000 deaths caused as a result of this tragic disease. With around 3.2 billion people at risk of contracting this...
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Malaria on its Way Out; Good News to Come
Malaria is spread through mosquitoes that carry the disease. In the United States, the swamps and marshes that housed malaria-carrying mosquitoes were destroyed to eradicate the disease, a trick that...
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Photonic Fence Zapping Malaria, One Mosquito at a Time
A laser defense system from the scientists at Intellectual Ventures may prove to be an effective weapon against malaria-spreading mosquitoes. The device known as a “photonic fence” works by monitoring...
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Malaria
Malaria is a disease caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are carried by Anopheles mosquitos. The mosquitos thrive in high temperatures, making malaria more common in tropical and subtropical...
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Substandard Medications Threaten the Eradication of Malaria
Health professionals attempting to treat patients with malaria are currently facing another complex obstacle in the developing world: the distribution of substandard, falsified and degraded...
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Spike in Malaria Cases due to Focus on Ebola Response
Researchers have determined that the continued prevalence of the Ebola epidemic within the West African nation of Guinea has substantially reduced the efficacy of programs designed to fight malaria,...
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The Main Causes of Child Mortality in Developing Countries
According to the World Health Organization, 9.2 million children under the age of 5 die every year, many from preventable conditions that could be treated with simple healthcare interventions. The...
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Experimental Anti-Malaria Drug Offers New Hopes
An international group of medical scientists and vaccination experts have announced the discovery of a new class of antimalarial compounds capable of killing malaria parasites in an alternative method...
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India on the Verge of Eliminating Malaria
The population of India is over 1.2 billion. It is only second behind China in terms of population, but has some of the poorest living conditions of any country of the world. Open sewages are the...
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