WHO urges Africa to use more effective malaria medicines

Use of Traditional Herbal Medicines to Cure Malaria

The problem of resistance by malaria causing parasites to drugs in current usage, or of malaria vectors to pesticides has prompted nations to refocus attention on implementing research on new drug development and new pesticides development. The world appears to be rediscovering the importance of traditional medicines and people are resorting to use traditional medicines in different names such ...

The challenges of doing more against malaria, particularly in Africa.

The malaria theme section of this issue of the Bulletin covers a wide range of topics, from combination therapy (pp. 1378–1388) and insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets (pp. 1389–1400) to the possible use of genetically modified Anopheles for vector replacement (pp. 1412–1423), from the use of geographical information systems in the planning, execution and monitoring of interventions (1401–141...

WHO moves to classify traditional medicines.

Neglected zoonotic diseases: It's now time for action urges WHO.

In addition, the WHO, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Organization for Animal Health have joined their hands and pledged to reduce the magnitude of NZDs.[1] Subsequently, more emphasis was given to overcome the global impact of NZDs (viz. rabies, cysticercosis, echinococcosis, and leishmaniasis) at the World Health Assembly meet in 2013.[2,3] In fact, a comprehensive policy framewo...

Traditional herbal medicines for malaria.