Mitsuru Toda

Mitsuru Toda started a discussion "Africa: Countries form Alliance against Malaria" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

Evelyn Lirri 1 October 2009 Uganda has partnered with nine other African countries in an initiative that aims to end all malaria-related deaths on the continent by 2015. The partnership, through the African Leaders Malaria Alliance was launched on September 23 in New York. It is an initiative of Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete and brings together leaders from 10 malaria endemic African countries including Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe, ...

Mitsuru Toda started a discussion "Spread of Malaria Feared as Drug Loses Potency" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

January 27, 2009 Spread of Malaria Feared as Drug Loses Potency By THOMAS FULLER TASANH, Cambodia — The afflictions of this impoverished nation are on full display in its western corner: the girls for hire outside restaurants, the badly rutted dirt roads and the ubiquitous signs that warn “Danger Mines!” But what eludes the naked eye is a potentially graver problem, especially for the outside world. The parasite that causes the deadliest form of malaria ...

Mitsuru Toda started a discussion "W.H.O. Supports Wider Use of DDT vs. Malaria" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

September 16, 2006 By CELIA W. DUGGER WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — The World Health Organization on Friday forcefully endorsed wider use of the insecticide DDT across Africa to exterminate and repel the mosquitoes that cause malaria. The disease kills more than a million people a year, 800,000 of them young children in Africa. Dr. Arata Kochi, who leads the group’s global malaria program, unequivocally declared at a news conference on Friday that DDT was the ...

Mitsuru Toda started a discussion "US grants Kenya Sh200m to fight malaria" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

Posted Sunday, October 11 2009 at 14:38 The fight against killer malaria on Sunday got a boost when the US government announced more than Sh200 million towards fighting the disease in Kenya. The community grant awards to two organisations involved in combating malaria in the country, is part of a $10.5 million grants to seven organisations in six countries in Africa to extend malaria prevention and control activities in communities most affected, particularly children under ...

Mitsuru Toda started a discussion "New malaria 'poses human threat'" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

An emerging new form of malaria poses a deadly threat to humans, research has shown. It had been thought the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi infected only monkeys. But it has recently been found to be widespread in humans in Malaysia, and the latest study confirms that it can kill if not treated quickly. The work, by an international team, appears in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. “ The increase in tourism in Southeast Asia may mean ...