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Food supplies run low in Shanghai COVID-19 lockdown; the latest health stories from around the world

April 12, 2022 By Lalita Panicker Leave a Comment

A citywide COVID-19 lockdown in China’s financial capital of Shanghai has disrupted food supplies badly, causing a wave of anxiety as residents ration dwindling stores of vegetables and staples. COVID-test requirements for truckers entering Shanghai have caused delays in the delivery of foods and other commodities. Within the city, many food delivery workers have been […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Story, Infectious diseases, International, News Tagged With: COVID-19, Malaria

Malaria and the long road to a vaccine that’s a mixed blessing

October 14, 2021 By Lalita Panicker 1 Comment

With Covid-19 figures generally heading south (touchwood and all that!), the big news of the week focussed on older ailments with the bat virus being replaced by the unfriendly neighbourhood mosquito. More than 130 years after the naming of the Plasmodium parasites behind malaria, the world now has its first approved vaccine against them. Many malaria researchers […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Noncommunicable diseases, Opinion, Science and Technology Tagged With: Malaria, malaria vaccine, vaccines

AMR: The silent, parallel pandemic

July 29, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Antimicrobial resistance tests. Image credit: Dr Graham Beards, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons, antibiotic resistant

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a “silent pandemic”, commentators argue, as experts argue for a harmonised approach to mitigate the damage. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed substantially to the AMR crisis, with the prescription of antibiotics for the treatment of those affected by COVID-19 contributing to an increase in AMR cases. This is a […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Science and Technology, Social issues Tagged With: antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance, coronavirus, COVID-19, drug resistance, Malaria, Tuberculosis

mRNA vaccine in development for malaria – too soon for hype?

July 29, 2021 By Nicholas Parry Leave a Comment

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BioNTech gained prominent public attention for its collaboration with Pfizer which produced a COVID-19 vaccine using mRNA technology. They have once again hit the headlines – this time setting their sights on malaria. BioNTech’s malaria project is part of the ‘eradicateMalaria’ initiative, led by the kENUP Foundation, to accelerate the eradication of the mosquito-borne disease. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, News, Opinion Tagged With: COVID-19, Malaria, mRNA, mRNA vaccines, vaccine

Malaria and COVID-19: The dual crisis continues

April 25, 2021 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Mosquitoes. Vector-borne diseases concept. World Malaria Day concept. Zika outbreak concept.

Last year, we prefaced our coverage of World Malaria Day with the note that “the era of COVID-19 masks the manifold health issues the world – India included – is grappling with. Malaria is among those issues – and with March 25th marking World Malaria Day, it is important to pay attention to the disease […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Opinion, Social issues Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Malaria, Mosquito, vector-borne disease, vector-borne diseases

Malaria management technology helps Mangaluru to continue decreasing case numbers

April 7, 2021 By Nick Witts Leave a Comment

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Malaria cases in Mangaluru have continued to decline thanks to malaria control system (MCS) technology that has helped to aid efforts, alongside active source reduction exercises taken in recent years against the spread of vector-borne disease.  Mangaluru, a coastal city known for having endemic malaria issues for three decades, has seen malaria incidence significantly reduced […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Infectious diseases Tagged With: infectious diseases, Malaria, Technology, vector-borne disease

Interview: Urban Weber of the Global Fund on COVID and the Big Three

July 29, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

works with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland since 2003. Since eight years, he heads the department "High Impact Asia", covering Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. His team manages grants for the prevention and treatment of the three diseases with an annual budget of some 800 million USD.

The response to the ‘Big Three’ – HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis – has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts have warned that a surge in deaths due to the ‘Big Three’ could ensue, as the pandemic hits access to vital medicines and other treatments and disrupts much-needed prevention campaigns. To discuss the effect of […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Interviews Tagged With: Exclusive Interviews, HIV, Malaria, Tuberculosis

Why we need to fix the healthcare system: An interview with Dr Mikashmi Kohli

July 22, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Dr Mikashmi Kohli, McGill

“There is a need for proper planning and strengthening the healthcare system where both the pandemic and these other treatable diseases can be managed simultaneously,” Dr Mikashmi Kohli told me recently. “We now have diagnostic tools which are multi-disease platforms so focusing just on COVID-19 , while forgetting about patients suffering from these manageable diseases, […]

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Infectious diseases, Interviews, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Social issues Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, diagnostics, Exclusive Interviews, HIV, interviews, Malaria, Tuberculosis

HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria: A surge in deaths?

July 14, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

TB elimination, TB-free India. Concept.

It is not news that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented disruption to public health – and as managing the pandemic ostensibly takes top priority for health systems worldwide, the ramifications for management of other diseases is a real concern. This concern has been raised in a modelling study released by The Lancet Global Health […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research, Opinion, Science and Technology Tagged With: COVID-19, HIV, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, Malaria, TB, The Lancet, Tuberculosis, vector-borne diseases

World Malaria Day in the time of COVID

April 25, 2020 By Kerean Watts Leave a Comment

Mosquitoes. Vector-borne diseases concept. World Malaria Day concept. Zika outbreak concept.

The era of COVID-19 masks the manifold health issues the world – India included – is grappling with. Malaria is among those issues – and with March 25th marking World Malaria Day, it is important to pay attention to the disease and afford it the gravity it warrants as a threat to public health. As […]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Infectious diseases, Medicine and Research Tagged With: Malaria

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