The malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try and save children with ...

The 10.3% of participants that experienced recrudescence -- recurrent malaria caused by the same strain of P. falciparum as ...

The health ministry says the country recorded 28 deaths from 12 286 malaria cases in 2024 with the Zambezi, Ohangwena, Kavango East, Kavango West and Oshikoto regions reporting the highest number ...

It provides the first evidence that resistance to the lifesaving antimalarial drug may be emerging in the group of patients ...

More than 6.1 million malaria cases, and 1,038 deaths, have been recorded in the country this year through the end of September, compared with 4.5 million cases, and 469 deaths, for all of 2023.

Malaria is a leading cause of death in developing countries, especially for children and pregnant women, according to the WHO. In 2022, the disease caused 608,000 deaths and about 249 million ...

The highest number of chikungunya cases were reported from the Shahdara South zone with 87 cases, while the highest number of ...

The World Health Organization on Tuesday listed 17 pathogens that cause widespread disease and death, including HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, for which it said new vaccines were "urgently needed." ...

About 94 percent of malaria cases and 95 percent of deaths from malaria, a disease that was long-eliminated in many parts of the world, occur in Africa. Even though there has been progress in the ...

Busoga has been listed among the regions with the highest number of malaria-related deaths in the country. Elizabeth Kaijuka, a public health officer at the United Nations Environment Programme ...

According to the World Health Organization, the country accounts for about 27% of global malaria cases. In 2022, it recorded nearly 67 million infections and nearly 200,000 deaths, about 80% of ...

Nigeria accounts for more than a quarter of all malaria deaths annually, ahead of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Mozambique. Efforts to stop the disease through vaccination have ...