Fund for anti-malaria fight surges to $1.97bn

Global Fund to reclaim lost malaria funds  The Citizen Daily

Scientists at Dundee University develop an "exciting" new single-dose malaria drug to combat drug-resistant parasites.

AmmoLand.com
SCI Foundation's Hunter Legacy 100 Fund Aid Anti-Poaching Efforts in Tanzania
AmmoLand.com
Tucson, AZ – (AmmoLand.com) Joseph Hosmer, President, Safari Club International Foundation (SCI Foundation), announced that SCI Foundation's Hunter Legacy 100 Fund (HLF) donated $100,000 to provide the Wildlife Conservation Foundation of ...

>Scientists seeking a vaccine against malaria, which kills a child every minute in Africa, have developed a promising new approach intended to imprison the disease-causing parasites inside the red blood cells they infect.

The government has been urged to fund the fight against HIV/Aids using internal sources to cover the deficit created by decision by development partners to reduce their support.

BY ABDUEL ELINAZA, 29 APRIL 2014  ALLAFRICA.COM
Guangzhou — TANZANIA could be headed to a malaria-free country, thanks to Chinese medical research findings that target the disease-causing parasite itself instead of the mosquitoes which carry it. The current approach to deal with malaria is to control mosquitoes, which spread the disease by either killing them with insecticides or by draining bodies of stagnant water in which their larvae live.
However, Dr Li Guoqiao of the Guangzhou...

>Mr Richard Rwegoshora, a 28 year old barber in Dar es Salaam is so fearful of mosquitoes that whenever he hears a buzzing sound of the bugs, he gets vividly agitated—he can’t settle until he does something to rid them off. For this reason, some of his peers have jokingly labeled him a “coward’’ of insects but he doesn’t mind.

Malaria, a serious health problem in Tanzania, can be eradicated in just three years, according to a leading expert on the prevention and treatment of the disease.

Scientists create new strains of malaria mosquitoes that produce 95% male offspring, and can drive a rapid population crash in the laboratory.