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The response to the pandemic offers valuable lessons in the fight against old enemies like malaria
As the curtains dropped on a rather unforgettable year, the World Malaria Report 2020 brought cheer for India. Reported malaria cases were down by 46 per cent in 2019 compared to 2018. India accounted for the largest decline in malaria cases in the South-East Asia in 2000-19. The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), which has been relentless in driving the malaria elimination goal, deserves much of the credit.
Zydus announces completion of Phase-I trials of ZY19489-A single dose cure for Malaria in collaboration with MMV
Posted On: 2021-02-03 22:58:18 (Time Zone: Arizona, USA)
Zydus Cadila, a research-driven, global healthcare provider, today announced that its antimalarial compound ZY19489 (MMV253) in development with Swiss-based product development partnership Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) has now completed Phase I clinical evaluation [Reg n Number ACTRN12619000127101]. In the first in humans study conducted in Australia, escalating doses of 25 to 1500 mg were administered to healthy human volunteers. Emerging pharmacokinetic (PK) and safety data were evaluated by a safety data review committee.
In addition, a malaria challenge trial involving the P. falciparum volunteer infection study (VIS) model was also conducted in Australia to determine the safety and tolerability and to characterize the antimalarial activity of a single-dose oral administration of ZY-19489 in healt
December 22, 2020
By Elizabeth A. Kaine
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2020, which is posted on their website, reveals that Sierra Leone in recent times has one of the world’s highest burdens of malaria cases – accounting for an estimated 6,824 deaths (or roughly 2% of all malaria deaths recorded globally) in 2019.
According to the Government of Sierra Leone’s own ‘Malaria Control Strategic Plan (2016-2020)’, malaria is endemic in Sierra Leone and transmission has been recorded in all areas of the country. At the time of the plan’s publication (in late 2015), malaria accounted for 40.3% of outpatient morbidity for all ages, and it accounted for 37.6% of all hospital admissions in the country.
A group of women gather outside Area 1 IDP Camp for internally displaced persons in Abuja, Nigeria. (Chinedu Asadu)
Abuja, Nigeria As the Nigerian capital of Abuja crawled out of sleep on a recent morning, Aisha Hassan quickly prepared food for her family of five before taking her 3-year-old daughter to a makeshift structure serving as the clinic for the internally displaced persons camp where they have been living for two years.
Originally from Gombe in northeast Nigeria where the Boko Haram terrorist group has operated for a decade, Hassan, like tens of thousands of others, was forced to relocate to Abuja in 2018, with the few belongings she could get hold of.