Oct 18 Watch Vaccine Could Become ‘Another Very Powerful Weapon’ to Fight Malaria An experimental vaccine against malaria, an oftentimes-deadly disease that half the world is exposed to, is still in trials, but it could be in production by 2015. Jeffrey Brown discusses the potential impact of the vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew… Continue watching
Aug 22 Overtreating Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa By Talea Miller In countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, health workers often treat patients for malaria even when a test indicates the parasite isn't present. The practice worries many health experts. Continue reading
Jul 22 Texting to Track Malaria Supplies By Talea Miller Mobile phones are pervasive in the developing world, and now a new wave of mobile technology is dramatically changing the way health care workers provide services to rural communities in these regions. Continue reading
Jul 07 Drug Long Used by Vets Could Boost Fight Against Malaria By Talea Miller Infant surrounded by mosquito nets. Photo by World Bank. A drug commonly used to combat heart worms in pets in the United States is becoming a versatile parasite-fighting treatment in regions stricken by tropical disease. Ivermectin, developed decades ago as… Continue reading
Apr 20 Global Fund Hit by Millions of Dollars in Malaria Drug Thefts By Talea Miller Child with severe malaria in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Millions of dollars worth of malaria medication donated through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria may have been lost to theft, according to internal documents obtained by… Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch No Insurance? On Borneo, This Clinic Accepts Manure On the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, the Asri Clinic doesn't take credit cards. Instead, the clinic accepts payments that improve the local ecosystem, be it seedlings for replanting, eggshells for composting, even manure. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports. Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch In Tanzania, New Push To Combat Malaria Between 60,000 and 80,000 Tanzanians die from malaria each year. In the last installment in his series of reports from Tanzania, Ray Suarez looks at a mult-million-dollar effort to slow the spread of the disease through the distribution of bed… Continue watching
Sep 17 Progress Towards a Malaria-Free Tanzania In this reporter's notebook, senior correspondent Ray Suarez writes about the steps Tanzania has taken to reduce malaria infection, and the promise of new malaria vaccine trials. Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Health Workers in Tanzania Battle ‘Neglected Diseases’ Senior correspondent Ray Suarez reports from Tanzania on a community drug distribution system being used to prevent river blindness, one of the conditions considered a "neglected tropical disease" because of its low profile in comparison to HIV, TB or malaria. Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch Tanzanian Doctor Shortage Spurs Training Innovation In the first installment of a three-part series on health care challenges in the east African nation of Tanzania, Ray Suarez reports on how health officials there have had to come up with new training efforts in order to meet… Continue watching