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AFRICA – World Health Organization has prequalified Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) for malaria control by Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc. VECTRONTM T500 is a new IRS product containing TENEBENALTM, the world’s…
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CAPE VERDE – The Global Fund has allocated US$4.7 million to finance programs that fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Cape Verde for the period 2023 to 2025. US$2.99 million…
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KENYA – To reach more children with the vaccine, the Ministry of Health is scaling up malaria vaccination using the world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S), in an additional 25…
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TANZANIA – Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) researchers in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region have started using drones to identify mosquito breeding sites which are hard to reach and kill them by…
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KENYA – The Ministry of Health is set to conduct a massive malaria vaccination drive in eight malaria prone counties in the next two weeks. This is after the World…
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KENYA – Researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health’s Division of National Malaria Programme (DNMP) have discovered a new species of mosquito…
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UGANDA – Ministry of Health has reported a worrying surge in malaria cases with figures showing there was an increase in malaria cases from 100,000 in 2021 to 199,695 cases…
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AFRICA – A second study in Africa by The Lancet has shown that Interceptor G2 nets, which contain chlorfenapyr and pyrethroid, reduced malaria incidence among children aged between six months…
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SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE – The World Health Organization in partnership with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria, has supported the Ministry of Health in Sao Tome…
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UGANDA – Uganda is set to make a major shift in the battle against malaria from its contribution to the Global Fund, with the focus turning from treatment to prevention,…
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