Latest malaria vaccine news
Recent stories and articles on malaria vaccine developments around the world
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Sugar preserves vaccines without refrigeration
February 17, 2010 – British researchers have developed a new way of preserving vaccines without refrigeration by sealing the vaccine's live viruses inside glass made of sugar.
CBC
Africa: Melinda Gates lauds health and economic advances for continent's poorest
February 12, 2010 – Despite impressive economic growth across Africa in recent years, the distribution of wealth has been uneven, and pernicious poverty persists.
allAfrica.com
Malaria parasite genome studied
February 9, 2010 – Scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University say they have completed the world's first in-depth study of the malaria parasite genome.
UPI
Ally for the poor in an unlikely corner
February 8, 2010 –
Andrew Witty is not quite as young or as buff as Anderson Cooper, but he does do interviews in shirtsleeves from the slums of Nairobi and rural hospitals in Uganda.
New York Times
The man who keeps the GSK ball rolling
February 6, 2010 –
Andrew Witty knows he can't please all of the people all of the time... Investors probably won't be too impressed by the comparatively paltry profit margins should the company's efforts to produce the world's first child vaccine against malaria come to fruition in what would be a landmark in 21st century progress.
Daily Telegraph (UK)
New malaria vaccine shows promise in children
February 3, 2010 –
A new vaccine showed promise at protecting young children from malaria, offering a potential new weapon against a disease that kills at least 1 million people each year.
Reuters
Bill Gates tells The Times about his $10bn plan to save 8 million children
January 30, 2010 –
For most people, a 329-page compendium of World Bank data on development and disease in the early 1990s would be, at best, an arid read. But most people don't see the world quite like bill Gates.
The Times London
Bill Gates promises $10 billion for vaccines
January 29, 2010 –
Bill and Melinda Gates said on Friday they would spend $10 billion over the next decade to develop and deliver vaccines, an increased commitment that reflects progress in the pipeline of products for immunizing children in the developing world.
Reuters
Gates to pump $10 billion into vaccines
January 29, 2010 –
Philanthropists Bill Gates and Melinda Gates said Friday they would spend $10 billion to develop and deliver new vaccines over the next decade, highlighting growing concerns that the global recession and competing government priorities will stifle efforts to control diseases in developing countries.
Wall Street Journal
Gates says malaria vaccine may be ready in three years
January 26, 2010 –
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told the BBC that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away.
BBC
2010 annual letter from Bill Gates
January 25, 2010 – Two years ago, Bill & Melinda Gates challenged the health field to set a goal of eventually eradicating malaria. It is such a widespread disease, the foundation has backed a number of different types of innovations.
Saving the world, 2.0
January 25, 2010 –
How do you address global hunger, epidemics, and poverty? According to Bill Gates, it takes R&D, software, and plenty of money.
Newsweek
GlaxoSmithKline to make 'affordable' malaria drugs
January 20, 2010
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The world's second biggest pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has unveiled a series of initiatives which it says will improve access to medicines in developing nations.
BBC
GSK offers to share data to help fight malaria fight
January 20, 2010 –
Andrew Witty, chief executive of GSK and the driving force behind the move, said the drug company has a "genuine appetite to change the landscape of healthcare for the world's poorest people".
Daily Telegraph (UK)
GSK offers scientists labs, data to fight malaria
January 20, 2010 –
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.
Associated Press
Glaxo eyes token profit on malaria vaccine
January 20, 2010 –
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) hopes to seek approval by 2012 for its experimental vaccine to prevent malaria and will seek only a small profit on the product in order to make it widely available in hard-hit countries, the company said.
Reuters
WHO: Increased funds show results in malaria battle
December 15, 2009 –
Increased funding is starting to pay off in the battle against malaria but prevention and treatment must be increased to try to halt the killer disease, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.
Reuters
Africa not ready for malaria vaccine, says researcher
November 3, 2009 –
Dr Wlifred Mbachama from the Laboratory for Public Health Biotechnology in Cameroon called upon governments in the continent to set up structures that would facilitate the vaccine to reach the grassroots.
Daily Nation
Malaria: a research agenda for the eradication era
October 31, 2009 –
The world's largest meeting on malaria, the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference, convenes in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov 1–6. Since the last MIM meeting in 2005, the malaria landscape has transformed dramatically.
The Lancet
Kenya to host malaria conference
October 29, 2009 – Grim statistics show every year 30,000 people die in Kenya as a result of Malaria. It is against this backdrop that medics in Africa are once again gearing up for the 5th MIM Conference to assess the setback and gains in the areas of research, treatment and prevention in responding to the disease that continues to wipe out humanity.
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Navy researchers work on malaria vaccine
August 31, 2009 –
Researchers at the Naval Medical Research Center are testing a malaria vaccine officials hope will protect both troops and civilians in tropical and subtropical regions afflicted by the disease.
DefenseLINK
UN’s anti-malaria envoy confident of reaching protection milestone in Africa
August 27, 2009 – The official tasked with spearheading United Nations efforts to tackle malaria says he is confident that the world can achieve Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s goal of providing all sub-Saharan African countries where the disease is endemic with universal access to insecticide-treated bed nets, indoor spraying and treatment by the end of next year.
UN News Centre
Human trials of malaria vaccine 'to start early next year'
August 24, 2009 – Scientists have claimed that the human trials for the first genetically engineered malaria vaccine will start early next year.
Press Trust of India
Results published online on Monday, December 8, 2008 in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that RTS,S, the world’s most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, provides both infants and young children with significant protection against malaria. Read media coverage of the results.
Bill Gates's next big thing
January 25, 2009– SEATTLE - Here’s a paradox: In these brutal economic times, one of the leading advocates for the world’s poorest people is one of the richest. Bill Gates will publish his first “annual letter” on Monday outlining his work on his twin passions — health and development in the poorest nations and education in America — and calling for the United States to do more even during this economic crisis. I came here to Seattle for an advance peek at the letter and to ask how he is adjusting to his transition from tycoon to philanthropist.
The New York Times
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