Warning about the impact of funding cuts on mosquito-borne diseases
On World Mosquito Day we are sounding the alarm about the potential impact of funding cuts on global health programmes that prevent and treat mosquito-borne diseases. Already the effects are being felt across the world, hitting those in most vulnerable humanitarian settings the hardest. There is a real risk progress will stall, cases of diseases […]
New threat of malaria ‘not previously seen before’ highlighted in Lancet Global Health paper
A paper published in The Lancet Global Health journal in November is sounding the alarm about the growing threat of malaria potentially spreading to countries where the disease is not typically endemic. The rapid increase in the population of an invasive species of mosquito Anopheles Stephensi across urban settings from east to west Africa, poses […]