In a recent study published in eBioMedicine, researchers developed the Flexible, Robust, Equipment-free Microfluidic (FREM) platform for malaria screening and Plasmodium species genotyping. Study: A ...

(Global Health): With malaria deaths rebounding worldwide, a pilot program testing a new and fiercely debated malaria vaccine began Tuesday in Malawi. Dr. Katherine O’Brien, the World Health ...

Almost half of the world's population is at risk of malaria infection, with children and pregnant women at the highest risk of getting sick and dying from the disease. Current methods to detect this ...

Individuals requiring blood transfusion are a vulnerable population, often with debilitating conditions like cancer, and transfusion-transmitted malaria is often fatal. Current serological tests used ...

Prisca Kweyamba, a research scientist at the Ifakara Health Institute’s Transmission Zero Project - Abbie Trayler-Smith/Abbie Trayler-Smith Bed nets and insecticides have long been used in the battle ...

This randomized trial found that insect-repellent wraps could help provide protection before children develop vaccine-induced immunity. Clinical malaria incidence was 66% lower in Ugandan children who ...

Over the past four years, malaria screening in Papua has increased by 337 percent, from 983,000 tests in 2021 to 4.3 million ...

The Oyo State Government, through the Oyo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (OYSACA), has conducted an integrated ...

Egypt has been declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization. Egypt is the third country in the Eastern Mediterranean region WHO has acknowledged as malaria-free, following Morocco and the ...

Egypt is the third country in the Eastern Mediterranean region WHO has acknowledged as malaria-free, following Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. In all, 44 countries and one territory have this ...