LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Malaria killed around 610,000 people in 2024, mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning of the risks of rising drug ...

Malaria cases and deaths rose globally last year amid funding cuts and the “growing threat” of drug resistance, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a new report. There were an estimated 282 ...

LONDON/ACCRA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - New vaccines are helping Ghana approach a long-sought goal of ending child deaths from malaria, demonstrating the potential of the shots to drive back a disease that ...

"The region of the Americas has demonstrated capacity to reduce malaria significantly," Marcos Espinal, head of PAHO/WHO's communicable diseases department, said in a statement late on Thursday.

New data from the World Health Organization reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted malaria services, leading to a marked increase in cases and deaths. According to WHO’s latest World malaria ...

Jess Randall’s experience contracting malaria during a global health internship in rural Kenya has reshaped her career goals, ...

NEW YORK — Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one involving a new class of drugs. Switzerland-based Novartis ...

The death of seven children from malaria was a tragedy that shook Samson Okoth’s world. The children, aged between one and five years, died from the mosquito-borne disease between 2018 and 2022. Okoth ...