Monday, 21 February 2011

POVERTY: UN Security Council discusses poverty and under-development as root of conflict

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota of Brazil at the Security Council 11 February 2011 –...

TUBERCULOSIS: Childhood: Individualizing treatment

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New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers indicate that the type of medications and the dosage routinely used to treat chil...

TUBERCULOSIS: Sri Lanka: Over 11,000 Tuberculosis patients annually

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Nadira GUNATILLEKE Every year around 11,000 new Tuberculosis (TB) patients are discovered and 2,000 of them are from Colombo. Out of this n...

TUBERCULOSIS: Texas: El Paso

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Jessica Molinar :  February 8, 2011 For many El Pasoans tuberculosis is a disease that is not even on their radar. This despite the fact t...

POVERTY: Low-cost insurance could provide protection against natural disasters

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Annie Kelly  21 February 2011 : guardian.co.uk Low-cost insurance that covers the lives, health and property of the poor could provide p...

MALARIA: Dispersing fungal spores over water kills malaria mosquito larvae

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Feb 21: A new research presents a method of dispersing pathogenic fungi as a means of preventing the spread of malaria. Malaria is spread...

MALARIA: Zanzibar control measures

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In Zanzibar, the Ministry of Health and partners accelerated malaria control from September 2003 onwards. The impact of the scale-up of inse...

MALARIA: Mosquito-eating spider likes smelly socks

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Victoria Gill : Science and nature reporter, BBC News Not the most appealing-looking house guest, but it could help combat malaria A s...

POVERTY: LESOTHO: Learning to do more with less

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 Photo: ALAFA Lesotho's textile industry has been hit by the recession in the US MASERU, 18 February 2011 (IRIN) - The Lesotho gove...

POVERTY: EAST AFRICA: La Niña-induced drought “to affect millions”

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 Photo: Anthony Morland/IRIN The the La Niña phenomenon is keeping East Africa drier than usual and has sparked food-security concerns in...

POVERTY: Five Causes of Rising Food Prices

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February 16, 2011: Jacob Goldstein   trimmer741/Flickr Global wheat prices more than doubled in the second half of last year, according ...

POVERTY: PAKISTAN: Floods uncover evidence of feudalism’s impact on poor

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 Photo: OXFAM Land reform hampered by the fact that many politicians are also landowners KARACHI, 17 February 2011 (IRIN) - The floods ...

POVERTY: SUDAN: Farming the future in the South

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 Photo: Jared Ferrie/IRIN: Big plans: Farmer Baba Samuel Manoah is turning long-fallow land into a fruit farm YEI, 17 February 2011 (IRI...

POVERTY: COTE D'IVOIRE: Cocoa ban latest worry for growers

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 Photo: Monica Mark/IRIN Growing conditions have been ideal for a good harvest ABIDJAN, 17 February 2011 (IRIN) - An embargo on the exp...

MALARIA: Malarone in pregnancy

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Amy Norton : Feb 16, 2011 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who take the anti-malarial drug Malarone during their first trimester ...

MALARIA: new articles published in Malaria Journal

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Interferon-gamma, a valuable surrogate marker of Plasmodium falciparum pre-erythrocytic stages protective immunity Perlaza B, Sauzet J, Bra...

MALARIA: Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection in asymptomatic rural Gabonese populations

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Nkoghe D, Akue J, Gonzalez J, Leroy EM Background Malaria may be perennial or epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, and its transmission may be ...
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MALARIA: The first Finnish malariologist, Johan Haartman,

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The first Finnish malariologist, Johan Haartman, and the discussion about malaria in 18th century Turku, Finland Hulden L After the Grea...

POVERTY: MADAGASCAR: Rice is 'becoming a luxury'

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 Photo: Ben Parker/IRIN: Rice seedlings ANTANANARIVO, 15 February 2011 (IRIN) - The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has do...

MALARIA: Senegal: Indoor spraying and US budget cuts

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Michael Gerson : February 15, 2011 DAKAR, SENEGAL For time beyond remembering, the people of Senegal have lost a battle with malaria, sur...