Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects humans and other animals. Malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, tiredness, vomiting, and headaches. In severe cases, it can cause yellow skin, seizures, coma, or death. Symptoms usually begin ten to fifteen days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. If not properly treated, people may have recurrences of the disease months later. In those who have recently survived an infection, reinfection usually causes milder symptoms. This partial resistance disappears over months to years if the person has no continuing exposure to malaria.Malaria is caused by single-celled microorganisms of the Plasmodium …
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WHO: World Health Organization · 15 December 2024 French
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vector-borne diseases, covering dengue, leishmaniasis, malaria and lymphatic filariasis. Des informations sur …
WHO: World Health Organization · 20 November 2024 English
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its gratitude to representatives from national malaria control programmes who provided valuable insights … attended as observers: Adam Aspinall (Medicines for Malaria Venture, Switzerland), Jon Batsow (Bill & Melinda … (President’s Malaria Initiative, United States of America), Hana Bilak (RBM Partnership to End Malaria, Switzerland) … Halliday (Unitaid, Switzerland), John Miller (Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa/PATH … Access Initiative, Burkina Faso), Henry Ntuku (Malaria Control and Elimination Partnership in Africa/PATH …
WHO: World Health Organization · 20 November 2024 English
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developing countries, claims more lives than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. Bacterial infections, especially …
WHO: World Health Organization · 17 November 2024 English
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progress ..........................3 Malaria: work of the Global Malaria Programme on preferred product … ..............................7 Medicines for Malaria Venture ...................................... … Research and Development Partnership GMP Global Malaria Programme HICs high-income countries IAVI … and middle-income countries MMV Medicines for Malaria Venture mRNA messenger ribonucleic acid NATs … outstanding needs for all NTDs. Malaria: work of the Global Malaria Programme on preferred product characteristics …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 French
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summarized below. Malaria – Ethiopia1 Between 1 January and 20 October 2024, over 7.3 million malaria cases and … rate [CFR], 0.02%) were reported in Ethiopia. Malaria poses a signi- ficant public health challenge … the land mass is considered to be endemic to malaria. Around 69% of the population residing in these … delivering essential health care services, including malaria treatment, in health facilities due to access chal- … challenges. WHO assesses the national risk for malaria in Ethiopia as high due to multiple factors including …
WHO: World Health Organization · 15 November 2024 French
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summarized below. Malaria – Ethiopia1 Between 1 January and 20 October 2024, over 7.3 million malaria cases and … rate [CFR], 0.02%) were reported in Ethiopia. Malaria poses a signi- ficant public health challenge … the land mass is considered to be endemic to malaria. Around 69% of the population residing in these … delivering essential health care services, including malaria treatment, in health facilities due to access chal- … challenges. WHO assesses the national risk for malaria in Ethiopia as high due to multiple factors including …
ADB: Asian Development Bank · 13 November 2024 English
This paper describes the main changes taking place in satellite Earth Observation (EO), and captures the initial experiences of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its developing member countries using …
3.1 Agricultural productivity by sector 3.3.3 Malaria incidences 3.9.1 Mortality due to air pollution …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024
This study uses a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a nationwide malaria prevention advertising campaign delivered through social media in India. Ads were randomly assigned … (concrete) dwellings, where malaria risk is lower, the campaign led to an 11 percent increase in mosquito net usage and a 13 percent increase in timely treatment seeking. Self-reported malaria incidence decreased … of the overall monthly incidence rate of malaria. Conversely, the study finds no impact on households living in non-solid dwellings, which face higher malaria risk, nor among rural settlements where such …
World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English
This study uses a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a nationwide malaria prevention advertising campaign delivered through social media in India. Ads were randomly assigned … (concrete) dwellings, where malaria risk is lower, the campaign led to an 11 percent increase in mosquito net usage and a 13 percent increase in timely treatment seeking. Self-reported malaria incidence decreased … of the overall monthly incidence rate of malaria. Conversely, the study finds no impact on households living in non-solid dwellings, which face higher malaria risk, nor among rural settlements where such …
Research Working Paper 10967 Can Facebook Ads Prevent Malaria? Two Field Experiments in India Dante Donati Nandan … trial to evaluate the impact of a nationwide malaria prevention advertising campaign delivered through … residing in solid (concrete) dwellings, where malaria risk is lower, the campaign led to an 11 percent … increase in timely treatment seeking. Self-reported malaria incidence decreased by 44 percent. Consistently … percent of the overall monthly incidence rate of malaria. Conversely, the study finds no impact on households …
World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English
This report is structured into three main parts, covering both new content and confirming key conclusions of the first two summary reports. First, it summarizes CCDR findings on the impacts …
in morbidity from vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue, waterborne infectious diseases that … CCDR notes that mortality and morbidity due to malaria and dengue are expected to increase by 56 and …
