While challenges remain in malaria control towards elimination, new guidelines and recently
approved vaccines offer hope. Monitoring for continued vaccine and chemoprevention …

Malaria, the most important parasitic disease of man, is transmitted by the bite of female
Anopheles mosquitoes and is caused by Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale wallikeri …

Malaria is a devastating disease, inflicting epidemic morbidity and mortality with an
estimated 500 million cases and 2.5 million deaths annually. Children suffer the most severe …

Malaria is a tropical disease. However, due to travel, cases can be imported into countries
with temperate climates. For instance there are 1300–1800 cases imported into the UK each …

MALARIA is a disease with a world-wide distribution, although its extent has been drastically
curtailed in recent years due to the efforts of countries to eradicate it by insecticidal attack …

Background Recent years have seen publication of a considerable number of clinical trials
of preventive interventions against clinical malaria in children. There has been variability in …

Malaria remains a major challenge to global public health, with morbidity and mortality rates
being highest in African children infected with Plasmodium falciparum. All four species of …

Although malaria kills∼ 1million children each year, preventive measures can be effective in
limiting the mortality and morbidity associated with malaria. Mosquito bites can be avoided …

“This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough
for science, child health and malaria control,” said WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros …

When in 1955 the malariologist Paul Russell predicted without hesitation the imminent end
of malaria, 1 little could he have imagined that half a century later malaria would still be one …