Actor George Clooney contracts malaria following Sudan trip

waltky · Nov 29, 2017

Granny says, "Dat's right - rich folks need to donate more money to fight malaria...

WHO: Global Progress Against Malaria at Risk as Funding Stalls
November 29, 2017 — Many countries are moving toward eliminating malaria, among them Madagascar, Senegal and Zimbabwe.

But a World Health Organization report warns that in other areas, progress has stalled. Malaria cases increased by more than 20 percent from 2015 to 2016 in eight African countries — including Rwanda, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, funding for malaria prevention and treatment has leveled off, reaching $2.7 billion in 2016, less than half of the 2020 target. "That amount of funding internationally has plateaued; possibly it has reached the realistic maximum now," said David Conway, a professor from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "And it has always been assumed, indeed it has been important that countries themselves should commit to funding malaria control. And I think the big opportunity now is for those countries to step up and realize that this is good value."

A woman carrying a baby holds a treated mosquito net during a malaria prevention action at Ajah in Eti Osa East district of Lagos, Nigeria

Overall, Africa continues to bear the highest burden of the disease, with approximately 401,000 deaths in 2016, a slight decrease from the previous year. In addition to improving the coverage of existing methods of malaria prevention, the WHO calls for urgent investment in new tools. "More research is needed to develop an effective malaria vaccine that could cover the populations that, at the moment, have high malaria rates and that, perhaps, do not use the available interventions even when they are being funded," Conway said.

Several malaria vaccines are under development. The WHO is planning a major trial of the so-called RTS,S vaccine starting next year in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi. However, its latest report warns the world is at a crossroads. Without better funding and more effective rollout of tools to tackle malaria, the progress made in recent decades could be undone.

https://www.voanews.com/a/who-global-progress-malaria-at-risk-funding-stalls/4141361.html
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Jimmy79 · Nov 29, 2017

Kimaris said: ↑

Yea, who gives a (*)(*)(*)(*) about all those poor little kids and woman being butchered.
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Maybe their govt should.

Clooney is private citizen. If hes doing some good, then more power to him.

scarlet witch · Nov 30, 2017

Vaccines are only a couple of years away

Malaria discovery suggests carbohydrates key to effective vaccine

Australian researchers have made a breakthrough that could lead to new malaria vaccines and treatments being developed within the next couple of years.
"So what this research has shown is that the parasite tags many of the proteins on its surface with carbohydrates," he told AM.
Dr Boddey's team found that without carbohydrates, the parasite cannot infect humans.

But he said current vaccine trials were only based on mimicking the parasite's protein structures.

"What we realised is that that we're probably priming people's immune systems with proteins that aren't quite modified correctly, they're not presented the right way, because the vaccine is not having this carbohydrate tag attached to it," he said.

"What we want to do is be able to engineer ways to put the carbohydrate onto the protein, and many forms of that currently exist, so it shouldn't be that much of a stretch to think that that could happen reasonably quickly in a couple of years.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-16/malaria-study-suggests-carbohydrates-key-to-vaccine/8952312

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