Bill Clinton, Bill Gates unite in foreign aid plea

2010-03-10T16:16:34Z

<div><p>Former president Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates called Wednesday on US lawmakers to boost foreign aid to fight diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria in the world's poorest nations.</p><p>The leading philanthropists went to

WHO unveils landmark anti-malaria measures

2010-03-09T10:16:38Z

<div><p>The World Health Organisation unveiled Tuesday landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs, which is threatening attempts to stifle some 250 million cases a year of the disease.</p><p>The UN health agency recommended that all suspected cases of the mosquito-borne disease should be tested and diagnosed b...

HIV among newborns could be 'eradicated by 2015'

2010-03-08T09:16:58Z

<div><p>Within five years, the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.</p><p>But those gains depend on the world continuing to ramp up health spending to maintain the current rate of progress, the Global Fund said in its annual report, released ahead of a funding meeting in the Netherlands l...

World could soon shield "most newborns" from HIV

2010-03-08T09:16:56Z

<div><p>Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.</p><p>But those gains depend on the world continuing to ramp up health spending to maintain the current rate of progress, the Global Fund said in its annual report, released ahead of a funding meeting in the Netherlands la...

World could soon shield "most newborns from HIV"

2010-03-08T09:16:53Z

Malaria, AIDS, TB in retreat: Global Fund

2010-03-08T08:15:27Z

<div><p>GENEVA (Reuters) - Malaria could be eliminated as a public health problem within a decade in most countries where it is now endemic, an international organization that funds the treatment and prevention of killer diseases said on Monday.</p><p>The elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV -- the virus that causes AIDS -- is within reach by 2015, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a...

World could soon shield "all newborns from HIV"

2010-03-08T06:16:19Z

<div><p>Within five years the world could shield all newborns from HIV, while making strides in reducing deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, the Global Fund to fight the three diseases said Monday.</p><p>But those gains depend on the world continuing to ramp up health spending to maintain the current rate of progress, the Fund said in its annual report, released ahead of a funding meeting in the Netherlands later thi...

Cambodia drug-resistant malaria stirs health fears

2010-03-06T16:15:21Z

<div><p>PAILIN, Cambodia (Reuters) - In a dusty village near the Thai-Cambodia border, 24-year-old Oeur Samoeun sits on a dark green hammock recovering from a strain of malaria that has resisted the most powerful drugs available.</p><p>Ravaged by days of fever and chills, he is considered lucky: the parasite has left his body. But for many others, the potentia...

Mosquito nets 'fail to curb malaria' in Malawi

2010-03-05T10:19:07Z

<div><p>Malawi's campaign to fight malaria by providing free or cheap mosquito nets has failed to curb the number of deaths caused by the disease, a deputy health minister said Friday.</p><p>Up to 7,000 Malawians died of malaria in 2009, with 4.5 million cases recorded, even though the government provided one million free nets to young children and pregnant women the year before, CHICAGO (Reuters) - Health experts watching for signs of a malaria outbreak have noticed several cases of the mosquito-borne disease among people traveling back from Haiti, where an earthquake in January killed as many as 300,000 people.</p><p>So far, 11 laboratory-confirmed cases of malaria have been reported am...

Haiti refugees, aid workers risk malaria: US study

2010-03-04T11:19:19Z

<div><p>Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in makeshift shelters and thousands of aid workers providing relief since a powerful quake rocked the country in January are now threatened by malaria, a US report said Thursday.</p><p>"Displaced persons living outdoors or in temporary shelters and thousands of emergency responders in Haiti are at substantial risk for malaria," the Tony Blair on Saturday called for concerted efforts to combat malaria in Nigeria which accounts for a quarter of the one million malaria deaths annually in Africa.</p><p>"Malaria has no barrier and does not discriminate. When we think of malaria we think particularly of children and women, and h...

Frail boy-king Tut died from malaria, broken leg

2010-02-22T09:14:27Z

<div id="subtitle">DNA studies show a frail King Tut succumbed to malaria and a broken leg</div><div><p>Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his...

Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears

2010-02-22T10:49:22Z

<div><p>High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday.&l...

Bill Gates says innovation can leverage change

2010-02-22T15:19:11Z

<div id="subtitle">In 2nd annual letter, Bill Gates looks back at his first year full-time at foundation</div><div><p>The needs of the poor are greater than the money available to help them, but that's not enough to discourage Bill Gates in his work as co-chair of the world's largest charitable foundation.</p><p>In his second annual letter, issued Monday, Gates ...

Malaria drugs may help patients with lupus

2010-02-22T16:18:23Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drugs used to treat malaria may be useful for patients with lupus, a chronic debilitating "autoimmune" disease, according to according to a new report.</p><p>In fact, the authors of the study, in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism, recommend that doctors give the drugs to all patients with lupus.</p><p>Lupus is...

GSK offers scientists labs, data to fight malaria

2010-02-22T17:54:48Z

<div id="subtitle">GlaxoSmithKline offers outside scientists labs, data to fight malaria, other tropical diseases</div><div><p>Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it will open up its research cupboards and labs to outside scientists in an unusual effort to trigger more research on malaria and other neglected tropical diseases.</p><p>The

Glaxo Fighting Malaria

2010-01-20T07:31:34Z

Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, in New York. Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it will open up its research cupboards and labs to outside scientist...

Glaxo offers free malaria research, vaccine nears

2010-02-22T17:54:47Z

<div><p>NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental malaria vaccine and said on Wednesday it would seek only a small profit and ensure it is widely available in hard-hit countries.</p><p>Chief Executi...

Expertos identifican indicadores clave para crear vacuna malaria

2010-02-22T18:05:39Z

<div><p> HONG KONG (Reuters) - Científicos identificaron dos moléculas de superficie en el parásito de la malaria que podrían conducir al desarrollo de una vacuna contra la enfermedad, que provoca la muerte de al menos 1 millón de personas por año, indicó el miércoles una revista médica.</p><p> Las moléculas, o antígenos, apar...

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