Jan 2nd, 2009 · Biologists identified bacteria that shorten the lifespan of disease-carrying mosquitoes. Shorter lives mean less time for the mosquitoes to incubate and transmit diseases like dengue and malaria. Biologist Andrew Read of Pennsylvania State University explains the findings.
Jul 19th, 2008 · Five years ago, Dr. Jessie Stone had temporarily given up medicine and left New York to pursue her passion for kayaking. She had no idea that her medical career and her passion would cross paths and change her life. Today, she runs a malaria prevention program in rural Uganda.
Feb 25th, 2008 · Cutting down forests in the Amazon destroys a natural means of absorbing carbon dioxide. But new roads in the jungle also create new pools of standing water -- ideal breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Feb 18th, 2008 · President Bush is visiting Tanzania, where he has been spotlighting HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. The president's good will tour has been focusing on the success stories of U.S. humanitarian aid in Africa.
Feb 17th, 2008 · President Bush visited a hospital today in Tanzania, where U.S. funds are helping to combat Africa's twin scourges of AIDS and malaria. Among the various U.S. projects in Africa are malaria vaccine studies conducted by the National Institutes of Health among the Malinke people of Mali. A recent visit to a NIH-funded facility in the village of Bancoumana showed that the research program has been a boon to the desperately poor village.
Feb 17th, 2008 · President Bush signed an aid deal Sunday in Tanzania to provide nearly $700 million to build roads and infrastructure there. Tanzania has already received millions from the U.S. to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and malaria. At a joint press conference, Tanzania President President Jakaya Kikwete spoke about Bush's legacy.
Nov 19th, 2007 · Russians like to joke that they might be the only people to benefit from global warming. At least, they say, it might temper Russia's notoriously cold winters. But scientists in Moscow are concerned that increasing temperatures will help spread malaria and other diseases to new areas.
Oct 25th, 2007 · Scientists have been searching for a malaria vaccine for decades. Now, one doctor thinks that his group is close. Dr. Fred Binka is Executive Director of the IN-Depth Network. Binka is on the verge of finding a vaccine for malaria.