By Michelle Meineke Achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) target of reducing malaria by 90 percent by 2030 would not only avert 600,000 deaths annually, but...
Bloomberg | Nigeria would see a boost to its economy equivalent to a quarter of the US$142.7 billion cumulative output benefit expected by 2030 for countries...
Bloomberg | Nigeria has appointed Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, to lead a committee commissioned with eliminating malaria in the West African nation as the mosquito-borne...
Two days ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, football star and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador Didier Drogba launches an animated video that tells...
The Rwandan government Tuesday launched a $329 million plan to stop malaria deaths in the country by 2018. The Rwanda Malaria Strategic Plan is a public...
Students Gérard Niyondiko (l) and Moctar Dembélé Two African students, Gérard Niyondiko and Moctar Dembélé have won the US$25,000 Global Social Venture Competition award for their...
Malaria is one of Africa’s most debilitating diseases. Every 45-50 seconds, a child dies of malaria and many more are left with severe brain damage. It...
The quest for the world’s first malaria vaccine appears to have taken a big step: A study in Africa shows experimental shots cut the risk of...
In global public health, disease-fighting tools that are cheap, available and sustainable are the Holy Grail. It might be hard to top the one being tested...
