Nestled in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, the small town of Obuasi is encircled by hills, largely forested but bearing scars from open-cast and illegal mining. Eighty kilometres south of the country’s second city, Kumasi, it is a community of...
Malaria could be quickly eliminated in south-east Asia by an all-out effort to dose whole populations with drugs that treat the disease, regardless of whether people have symptoms or are healthy, say experts. The radical programme may be the best wa...
Greater investment in satellite tracking of mosquitoes is vital in the fight to eradicate malaria, Bill Gates said on Wednesday. Gates told the heads of Commonwealth states that innovation was needed to tackle the resurgence of the disease. “If ther...
Like many fellow Kenyans, Allan Pamba had his first experience of malaria as a small boy in his grandparents’ village. Growing up, he learned with horror of the disease’s heavy toll: of the global 400,000 deaths a year from malaria, the majority are...