Global Cause
Malaria & NTDs Q2 2023
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Public-private partnership: the entryway for malaria elimination in Equatorial Guinea
With intensive year-round transmission, malaria has been a leading health problem for the people of Equatorial Guinea. Sustained partnership efforts offer hope for a future without malaria. Equatorial Guinea is made up of its mainland and insular regions, including Bioko Island. MCD Global Health (MCD) and its partners celebrate year 20 of implementing the Bioko...
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Strategy, Persistence and Innovation: how we aim to beat Malaria
For millennia, humans have been locked in a strategic game of chess with a formidable opponent—malaria. With hundreds of thousands of lives at stake each year, we can’t afford to lose. When we make a move, malaria makes countermoves that challenge our best defences. As seen recently, one mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, is literally on...
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How British-backed malaria vaccines are helping to move progress forward
This year, World Malaria Day falls during World Immunisation Week, highlighting the collective action needed to protect people from vaccine-preventable diseases, including malaria. Malaria is one of humankind’s oldest and deadliest diseases, stealing futures and diminishing both national and individual potential, with a child still dying every minute from this treatable and preventable disease. New...
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Why we need greater coordination to fight malaria in displaced populations
Climate, natural disasters and conflict displace millions of people into zones where malaria is highly prevalent, creating major challenges for humanitarian response. Global coordination can offer improved support to displaced populations in malarial regions. Millions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, face an increased threat from malaria after being displaced by changing weather conditions or conflict. Displaced...
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Investing in new drugs to combat parasitic worm infections
Lack of investment in developing drugs against parasitic worm infections results in limited treatment options and a growing threat of drug resistance. Combining or repurposing drugs can help overcome this problem. Anthelmintic drugs are crucial in the fight against parasitic worm infections — which affect over 1.5 billion people worldwide — particularly for those living...
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The time is now: how innovation and investment can tackle malaria in Africa
Africa, the continent bearing the heaviest burden of malaria, is on a time-sensitive mission to intensify efforts to eliminate the devastating disease once and for all. The African Union (AU) Malaria Progress Report 2022, presented at the AU summit in my capacity as the Chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), reveals that progress...
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Invest, innovate, implement: it’s time to deliver zero malaria
This World Malaria Day, the global malaria community calls for urgent action and further investment to deliver zero malaria. Since the turn of the millennium, global partnership and sustained investment have significantly impacted the fight against malaria, preventing 2 billion malaria cases and saving 11.7 billion lives. Today, however, low coverage of existing tools, emerging...
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Inaction is unacceptable: how we can re-energise the fight against malaria
The fight against malaria has stalled in some countries. A mix of new and existing tools and approaches can help eliminate and eradicate this preventable but deadly disease. The world must take a more proactive approach to fight malaria, insists Simon Bland CBE, CEO of Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), a United Arab Emirates-based...