NEW YORK, USA, 24 April 2008 - Ten years after UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and their partners launched the Roll Back Malaria initiative, malaria is still the single largest child killer in Africa. The disease takes the lives

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2008 - The World Bank and partners in the global war against malaria called for an intense push to eliminate malaria as a major public health problem and end deaths from this ancient disease. This week, the

Malaria Consortium is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to combating malaria and other communicable diseases among the poorest and most vulnerable people in Africa and Asia. More than 90% of our human and technical resources are based in Africa supporting Ministries

Feared since the days of the Roman Empire, malaria remains a major health problem. GlaxoSmithKline is supporting several major programmes to answer the challenge. The humble mosquito may be tiny, but it carries some of the worst diseases in the

For many years, chloroquine had been the treatment of choice for malaria, although resistance of the malaria-causing parasites to this medicine has made it largely useless today. There is a range of other drugs available for treatment as well as

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, 5 March 2008 - Awa Gras knows firsthand how deadly malaria can be for children growing up in Guinea-Bissau. She has given birth to eight children, and malaria has killed four of them. The last to die was