The UN health agency warns that the world is currently "off track" to reach its goal of reducing malaria cases and deaths by 90 percent by 2030, insisting funding should be more than doubled.
The United Nations has warned of a "second disaster" in Pakistan from diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea, as well as from malnutrition.
Project involving more than 39,000 households in Tanzania shows nets, treated with chlorfenapyr as well as pyrethroid, lead to a remarkable decline in malaria prevalence.
Pharmacists from Ethiopia and Germany studied Ranunculus multifidus, a buttercup with yellow flowers that has been used in traditional medicine against malaria and say it has promise, especially with chloroquine-resistant strains emerging.
The global health body endorses GSK's malaria vaccine for children, the first against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than 400,000 a year.
Hydroxychloroquine has long been used for malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis but is not proven to be safe or effective for preventing or treating coronavirus infection.
The event was a pledging conference for the vaccines alliance GAVI, which says the funds will be used to vaccinate about 300 million children in dozens of countries against diseases like malaria, pneumonia and HPV.
The warning comes a day after a UN appeal for countries to fund emergency aid in the Arab world’s poorest nation fell a billion dollars short of what agencies need to cover essential activities from June to December.
Countries where coronavirus infections are declining could still face an "immediate second peak," WHO warns, while UN health agency halts trial of hydroxychloroquine drug in patients citing safety reasons.
In the study that looked at over 96,000 people hospitalised with Covid-19, those treated with hydroxychloroquine or the related chloroquine had higher risk of death than patients who were not given the medicines.
The global coronavirus pandemic has affected more than five million people, with some 330,000 deaths. Coronavirus-related updates for May 21:
A fragile healthcare system and a continent facing several pre-existing ailments, the coronavirus looks set to further strain resources.
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