World Malaria Day 2012Published: Apr 23, 2012
This year’s world malaria day has the global theme: Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria. This message could not come at a better time. The global effort to tackle malaria has picked up pace in recent years and impressive achievements in reducing the impact of malaria on some of the world’s poorest people have been made. Since 2000, malaria deaths - mostly among young children - are estimated to have fallen by 20 percent. But this impetus must be maintained or there is a very serious risk of these gains being lost.

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When It’s Not MalariaPublished: Apr 19, 2012
Malaria Consortium’s Pioneer Project, funded by the UK charity Comic Relief, is training health workers at low level health facilities in Uganda to diagnose accurately and quickly malaria in patients using Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs). When this simple and relatively low cost technology is used consistently and properly it can ensure the patient receives quick and appropriate treatment.

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Reforms Underway as the Global Fund Waits for Donor CommitmentsPublished: Apr 18, 2012
The approach of World Malaria Day 2012 has seen a flurry of activity in the UK Parliament around global health concerns, with both the All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and the International Development Committee (IDC) hosting sessions on the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Managing the Risk of Malaria in Pregnancy in NigeriaPublished: Apr 18, 2012
Tosin Kareem, 25, is nine months’ pregnant with her second child and seems pleased to be sitting down. The apprentice book printer is taking part in a discussion group about malaria at her ante-natal clinic. It’s a peaceful contrast to outside - the hectic streets of Lagos’s Somolu district.

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Ghana First to Host Malaria Exhibition in Africa Published: Apr 18, 2012
Malaria Consortium and Adam Nadel’s Malaria: Blood, Sweat and Tears photographic exhibition is being launched at the National Museum of Ghana in Accra on 20 April 2012. 

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