Malaria Site: All About Malaria

What's This About

Malaria, the 'King of Diseases', continues to haunt and taunt mankind. More than a century after identification of the causative parasites, and more than half a century after finding effective drugs and insecticides, the disease as old as humanity itself, affects more than 500 million and kills more than 3 million people every year. The dreaded disease is difficult to eradicate and its control is possible ONLY with coordinated efforts of the general public, healthcare personnel and government agencies. And with global warming threatening to increase mosquito density and the spread of other mosquito borne infections like Dengue and Chikungunya, time has come for all of us to wake up.

This web site provides comprehensive information on the history, aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, complications and control measures of malaria. It also showcases the malaria control efforts at Mangalore, South India.

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What's New
Are We Treating Malaria?
Doctors for uniformity in malaria treatment The Hindu, May 16, 2012 [See]
New 'International Travel and Health Bulletin 2012' from WHO and Fresh Malaria Risk Info for India [WHO Bulletin \| India Alert TOI]
Global Fund Resumes Health Grants
New Synthetic Antimalarial Arterolane+Piperaquine Launched in India [Report \| Pharmacokinetics \| Trials 1, 2, 3 \| Licence]
Malaria Resurgence Directly Linked To Funding Cuts [Malaria Journal Full text \| Report]
Test, Treat, Track: WHO Press Release
UN appeals for $3.2 billion to meet goal of ‘near-zero’ malaria deaths in 2015 [Report]
Group A PfEMP1 Surface Antigens may be Key Proteins of Virulence [PLOS Pathogens Full Text \| Report]
New Optical Technique for Malaria Diagnosis [Biomedical Optics Express Full Text \| Report]
A global map of dominant malaria vectors [Parasites & Vectors Full Text]
Spread of artemisinin resistance worrying [Artemether resistance in Africa Malaria J Apr 27, 2012 \| Lancet Apr 5, 2012 \| Science Apr 6, 2012 \| Report \| Report \| Global Plan for Artemisinin Resistance Containment \| NEJM Sep 2011 \| NEJM Jul 2009 \| Nature Rev Microbiol Apr 2010]
Anti-malarial compounds from marine organisms [The Hindu Report]
Did mefloquine trigger Afghan massacre? [Report]
50000 cases of malaria reported in one month from India [See]
Malaria deaths in 2010 double of World Malaria Report estimates [Lancet article \| Lancet Editorial \| Guardian Report \| The Hindu Report] Deaths 45 times higher in India [TOI \| IBN News]
Global Fund halts new funding until 2014 [Report \| Report]
RTS,S Vaccine Shows Promise [Full Text \| Report \| Report \| Results Face Scrutiny - Nature News]
Malaria Cases Drop by Half and Deaths by 38%, Claims UN [UN Press Release]
Nearly 2 lakh malaria deaths in India, Lancet report [See Full Text \| Lancet Editorial \| Report \| WHO rebuttal]
Journal Watch [See] Updated Apr 28, 2012
Some Older News...[See]