Tag: Malaria
Indian researcher led US team finds a new mechanism key to...
The team led by Dr Gunjan Arora, Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States has discovered a new mechanism that could be exploited in the mission to create a malaria vaccine..............
PATH & SD BIOSENSOR partner on diagnostic test critical for malaria...
The agreement supports development and availability of an affordable, high-quality enzyme deficiency test.................
Malaria eradication a realistic goal in the next 10-15 years, says...
With an estimated 216 million cases of malaria occurring across 91 countries in 2016, halting the transmission of the malaria parasite is a critical step to achieving this goal.................
World Malaria Day: WHO calls for sustained high-level commitment to beat...
The WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia has called for expanding national malaria programmes’ reach to disadvantaged or neglected communities, including tribal, migrant or mobile populations..............
Increase in deadly malaria infections posing new challenges
Researchers have also observed a high proportion of cases of mixed infections - infection of a patient by two or more species of malaria parasite.................
CSIR scientists working on new vaccine for malaria
The researchers at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are working towards developing a whole parasite vaccine that can be conditionally attenuated when given to humans.............
Malaria cases witness 23% drop in 2017, efforts to eradicate disease...
The government has drafted National Strategic Plan for malaria elimination (2017-2020) wherein the country has been stratified based on the malaria burden into four categories and based on this the intervention of control and prevention are being strengthened.........
India has reduced its new malaria cases by one third: J...
Union health minister, Mr J P Nadda has stated that with nearly three-fourth of the share of the regional burden, India’s successes have significantly contributed to the reduction of the burden of malaria for the entire South-East Asia region...........
IIT Hyderabad develops device to diagnose infectious diseases
The device uses a biochip and a nanomaterial based on Zinc Oxide. As a proof of concept, it has been demonstrated in rapid detection of malaria...........
Novartis & MMV launch patient trial to test KAF156 against MDR-malaria...
The KAF156 has potential to be a game-changer in malaria elimination, rapidly clearing malaria infection, including resistant strains, and blocking parasite transmission......