This success in saving lives may be offset by the Ebola outbreak, and the UN agency warned of factors that might reverse the progress being made.
Scientists have developed a tool for coding DNA that will help to monitor drug-resistant strains.
Ensuring effective malaria control initiatives.
A new technique involves injecting mosquitoes with a gene that causes mostly male offspring, leading to a decline in population as females disappear.
As the "malaria belt" widens, research shows that changing climates may be a major challenge to SA’s ambitious plan to destroy the deadly disease.
South Africa is now one step closer to having locally manufactured antiretroviral, malaria and tuberculosis drugs on its shelves.
A new therapy – a combination of drugs made from the artemisinin plant with older medicines – could transform the fight against malaria.
Though progress has been made, Africa must continue the fight against Aids, TB and malaria.
A global squabble over property rights could see the price of medicine soar in poor countries.
As health officials insist on reaching a ‘near-zero’ malaria deaths target by 2015, attempts to fight the illness have drastically slowed down.
The drug is effective against resistant parasites and shows no adverse side effects, researchers say.
Oxford-based scientists think they can combat malaria by disrupting breeding with genetically modified insects. But is that safe?
One of the difficulties in breeding mosquitoes is how to feed them. But malaria expert Maureen Coetzee just rolls up her sleeves and gets stuck in.
Over 200-million people contract malaria each year. The M&G got up close to the Anopheles mosquito, the pest that spreads the disease.
The tools to fight the malaria may have improved, but only sustained efforts will totally eliminate it, not just intermittent interventions.
The number of people treated for malaria in projects run by Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) in the DRC has soared by 250% since 2009 in six provinces.
Médecins Sans Frontières has warned that Malaria cases have increased dramatically in the DRC, leaving clinics and treatment centres unable to cope.
Misuse of artemisinin combination therapy on the Thai-Burma border has allowed parasitic resistance to develop that could spread worldwide.
In the 1980s drug-resistant strains of malaria spread from Southeast Asia to Africa. Millions of children died. Now, it’s happening all over again.
Tropical diseases such as malaria could be wiped out as scientists figure out how to render mosquitoes sterile.
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/ 3 February 2012
After six cases of malaria have been confirmed in Tshwane, officials have warned healthcare workers to remain vigilant.
Bill Gates has rescued a beleaguered health fund by pledging $750-million to fight three of world’s killer diseases — Aids, malaria and TB.
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/ 20 January 2012
Counterfeit and substandard drugs threaten the fight against malaria in Africa.
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/ 24 October 2011
Millions of children’s lives could be saved by a new vaccine that has been shown to halve the risk of malaria in the first large-scale trials.
Sending daily SMS reminders to health workers can mean nearly 25% more children are properly treated for malaria.
What do mosquitoes like more than human skin? Stinky socks. Scientists think the odour of human feet can be used to attract and kill mosquitoes.
We pay for antibacterial wipes while Third World children die because of a lack of basic sanitation.
<b>Phillippe Latour</b> travels to the Zinder region, in eastern Niger, to talk to communities most affected by bad harvests and malaria.
Policies to stop the use of DDT in the prevention of the disease are buttressed by unsound science.
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/ 12 January 2011
The World Health Organisation launched a plan on Wednesday to stop a form of drug-resistant malaria from spreading from Southeast Asia to Africa.
At least 440 cases of malaria have been reported in Limpopo, provincial health department spokesperson Cecil Motsepe said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2010
Bed nets and indoor spraying credited with cutting rates of admissions and deaths, but gains are fragile, WHO warns.