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Rokhaya Diagne, a 25-year-old A.I. entrepreneur in Senegal, is part of a subset of Africa’s enormous youth population that is confident technology can solve the continent’s biggest problems.
The new R21/Matrix-M vaccine will be far more easily available than the first vaccine – but the reality of life in Africa will blunt its impactA new vaccine against malaria – which kills 600,000 people every year, mostly children – is to be injected in…
In 2021, WHO endorsed the first malaria vaccine in what it described as a ‘historic’ effort to end the devastating toll the mosquito-transmitted disease has on Africa.
Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.
A malaria-carrying species that thrives in urban areas and resists all insecticides is causing outbreaks in places that have rarely faced the disease.
Working on a remote island, scientists think they can use genetic engineering to block a malaria-carrying species of mosquito from spreading the disease — and do it in just a few months. But governments are wary.
A different way of thinking about mosquito-borne diseases could save billions of dollars, and end them for good, some health experts believe.
With mosquitoes evolving to evade bed nets and common insecticides, scientists are experimenting with new ways to block them.
World faces ‘malaria emergency’ from resistance to insecticides, waning efficacy of drugs, funding shortfalls and climate changeAfrican leaders have warned that the world is facing the “biggest malaria emergency” of the past two decades.Heads of state …
An initial 18m doses will be delivered over the next two years to combat a disease that kills nearly half a million children annuallyA long-awaited vaccine for malaria has been announced for rollout across 12 African countries over the next two years, …