Malaria![]() Malaria articles1. Health :: UN-backed fund to fight major diseases approves $1.1 billion of new grantsThe United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved $1.1 billion of new grants to be handed out over the next two years and agreed to allocate another $130 million to five projects it had already started supporting. 2. Malaria :: Malaria vaccine candidate has promising safety, tolerability profile in infants The first study to test GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) investigational RTS,S/AS02 malaria vaccine in African infants serves as the first proof of concept in this population that the vaccine has a promising safety and tolerability profile and reduces malaria parasite infection and clinical illness due to malaria, according to a paper published today online in The Lancet. 3. Mosquito :: MIT Holding, Georgia Southern University, and MEVLABS successfully test the PROVECTOR MIT Holding, Inc. (OTCBB: MITD), in collaboration with MEVLABS and Georgia Southern University, have successfully tested prototype designs of the patent pending PROVECTOR™. This small dispensable device is designed to stop the development of pathogens and parasites found in mosquitoes that carry deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and West Nile virus. 4. Malaria :: Malaria product portfolio would benefit from greater cohesion amongst stakeholders Malaria drug and vaccine research is booming. According to a report launched today in the UK byAustralian researchers at the George Institute for International Health, 16 new malaria vaccinecandidates are now in clinical trials; six new malaria drugs are about to reach the market; and by2011 we will have up to 12 new antimalarial drug product registered. 5. HIV :: UNAIDS pledges to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in developing world Stressing the world body’s commitment to “make the money work” to ensure the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is as effective and beneficial as possible, the head of the lead United Nations agency tasked with responding to the pandemic called for a large-scale AIDS response now. |