Malaria World this week has an interesting research article published in BMC by Mbishi et al that finds that poverty is a significant factor in the prevalence of malaria. The findings of the pooled data research article found that maternal education, household wealth and rural/urban place of residence had significant effects on the occurrence of […]
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Blood Donations and Malaria
This week there was an article in Malaria World Newsletter of interest to those of us who do not live in countries in which malaria is supposedly endemic. The subject is blood donations. I am an active donor. I give blood because it supposedly reduces blood pressure. It is easy to see how this would […]
Response to Declaration for accelerated malaria mortality reduction in Africa
Response to Declaration for accelerated malaria mortality reduction in Africa by Ministers of Health of High Burden High Impact (HBHI) countries in Africa. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Dear Minister, I am responding to your call to build collaborative partnerships for resource mobilization, […]
R21 Vaccine is less toxic and ineffective than a Rabies Vaccine
Every week I check the news in the malaria world to see if there is anything of interest. This week there was a press release from the WHO announcing the Shipment of newest malaria vaccine, R21, to Central African Republic and claiming it marks latest milestone for child survival. Needless to say I was intrigued […]
The Future is African
I visited Africa for the first time this winter. It was great to leave dreary wet Northern Europe to enjoy the sun vertically overhead near the Tropic of Capricorn in December. What was also pleasant was the optimism of the people and the feeling that Africa is developing quickly and the living standards of the […]