Indian-origin doctor appointed global coordinator for US President's Malaria InitiativeBorn in Liberia, Raj Panjabi and his family fled the country during its civil war and arrived in the United States as refugees in the 1990s.
02 Feb, 2021, 10.27 AM IST
India only high endemic country to report malaria cases decline of 17.6% in 2019 over 2018: Government"The Annual Parasitic Incidence (API) reduced by 27.6 per cent in 2018 as compared to 2017, and by 18.4 per cent in 2019 as compared to 201...
02 Dec, 2020, 04.21 PM IST
Say 'Ok Google, talk to Malaria No More' on Android devices to get info on diseaseThe feature will be available in Hindi and English, and will answer questions like 'What is malaria fever?', 'What are the types of malaria...
26 Nov, 2020, 06.24 PM IST
New malaria cases down a third: JP NaddaNadda said with nearly three-fourth of the share of the regional burden, India’s “successes” have significantly contributed to the reductio...
30 Nov, 2017, 01.01 AM IST
Malaria to be eliminated from 15 states by 2020: GovernmentBy 2020 we will be able to eliminate malaria from 15 states with an annual parasite incidence (API) of less than one case per thousand popu...
14 May, 2017, 12.48 PM IST
India needs $18 billion to win battle against malariaIndia, with the highest malaria burden outside Africa, will need an investment of $18 billion to achieve its 2030 deadline to eliminate the...
12 Dec, 2016, 10.51 AM IST
Sun Pharma, others ink pact for malaria project in MandlaThe lessons learned from this demonstration project will be useful for scaling up malaria elimination programme in the rest of the state an...
15 Nov, 2016, 06.12 PM IST
Government plans implementing National Framework for Malaria Elimination with Sun PharmaThe public-private partnership agreement is likely to be signed next week and will add funds to the National Framework for Malaria Eliminat...
21 Apr, 2016, 06.00 AM IST
Government launches national framework for elimination of malariaAs per the World Malaria report 2015, 14% of the population in India lives in high transmission area of malaria
01 Mar, 2016, 04.26 PM IST
Centre sets target of making India ‘malaria-free’ by 2030India has set specific milestones and targets as part of a national framework to strategically eliminate malaria by 2030, the global deadli...
13 Feb, 2016, 11.28 AM IST
India may battle malaria on its own as international agencies plan to divert financesIndia may have to ramp up its funding to eliminate malaria as several international agencies are expected to divert finances to more demand...
30 Sep, 2015, 12.32 PM IST
P.vivax strain of malaria poses new lethal threat to India, says WHOExperts say, P.vivax is proving to be an extremely difficult parasite as it does not readily respond to the existing control measures
31 Jul, 2015, 10.47 AM IST
WHO calls for enhanced efforts for malaria controlOf the 18.9 million P vivax malaria cases reported in 2012, nearly 13 million were from countries in the WHO South-East Asia Region, mainly...
29 Jul, 2015, 06.52 PM IST
Malaria on decline in India, half a million die globally: WHOIndia has seen a "major" decline in the number of deaths caused by Malaria in the last three years even as more than half a million people ...
23 Apr, 2015, 10.21 PM IST
World Health Organisation calls for greater investment to check malariaEven though the number of confirmed malaria cases in the region decreased from 2.9 million in 2000 to 2 million in 2012, malaria remains a ...
24 Apr, 2014, 04.02 PM IST
- India to see decrease in malaria cases: WHO
"India, the country with the highest number of cases in the region, is projected to achieve decreases of 50-75 per cent in malaria case inc...
18 Dec, 2012, 11.29 AM IST
- Drug-resistant malaria may spread, India warned
A new research has warned that drug-resistant malaria parasites on the border of Thailand & Myanmar may spread to India.
06 Apr, 2012, 07.10 PM IST