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Millions of Dollars Donated for Malaria Drugs Stolen

LONDON -- A leading global health fund believes millions of dollars worth of its donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years - perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars worth - vastly exceeding levels of theft previously suspected, according to confidential documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal...

George Clooney Got Malaria: 5 Facts About the Still-Dangerous Disease

George Clooney's dazzling good looks couldn't protect him from one of Africa's biggest dangers: malaria. He picked up the infection while he was in Sudan earlier this month. According to a statement, he has now recovered. Piers Morgan, Larry King's replacement on CNN, broke the news on...

Study: 200,000 Malaria Deaths in India Each Year

(Oct. 21) -- More than 200,000 Indians may be dying of malaria each year -- a figure more than 13 times greater than "misleadingly low" previous estimates by the World Health Organization. That's according to a new study published online today in the British medical journal The Lancet. But the WHO is disputing the...

DNA Sheds Light on King Tut's Life, Death

(Feb. 16) -- The most famous of all pharaohs was a frail and sickly king who walked with a cane and suffered from a painful bone disease and a club foot. But it may have been a severe case of malaria that finally killed him, according to groundbreaking new genetic analysis. A team of researchers from Egypt, Germany and...

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06/04/12 Shein Thanks U.S. Govt for Supporting Development Source: AllAfrica Health Zanzibar President who is the chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Dr Ali Mohamed Shein, has insisted that the Zanzibar government will continue to strengthen development sectors, and thanked the American government for supporting them in this venture.
06/04/12 Pangasinan malaria- free for 1.5 years Source: Sunday Punch - Philippines PANGASINAN has remained free of malaria cases in the last 18 months, but the Provincial Health Office (PHO) continues to closely monitor areas that are under risks of incidence.
06/04/12 ICPC Sponsors Corps Member's Malaria Eradication... Source: AllAfrica Health The Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Wednesday sponsored a corps member, Dr. Ajayi Toyosi, in her malaria eradication programme.
06/02/12 Global Cancer Rates Set to Soar by 2030 Source: MedicineNet Worldwide cancer rates are set to jump more than 75% by 2030.
06/01/12 Foreign aid works, changing and saving lives Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA A growing flood of data shows that death rates in many poor countries are falling sharply, and that aid-supported programs for health-care delivery have played a key role.

Background on malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium.

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