Resources Tagged: Malaria

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  1. Two Drugs at Once for Malaria.

    19-10-1999 Due to worries about drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite, patients with malaria should be treated with a two-drug combination.
    Health Artemisia Malaria

  2. Prevention of Malaria with Insecticide-Treated Nets

    20-06-2000 Mosquito nets are effective in protecting people sleeping under them as long as the nets have no holes and people are not sleeping up against them. However, a mosquito will continue searching until it finds a way in or finds part of the body that is against the net where it can bite through....
    Mosquito Nets Malaria Pest Control Biological Control

  3. Papaya Leaf Tea as a Malaria Prophylactic?

    01-10-2002 The questions we asked in EDN 69 were: Do you drink the tea yourself or know people who do? How do you make the tea? How often do you drink it? Do you know of people who drink the tea regularly and still get malaria?
    Health Papaya Malaria

  4. Fake Malaria Drugs in SE Asia

    20-04-2008 According to a New Scientist article in 2007, up to 52 per cent of anti-malarial tablets sold across the region including Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Burma and Thailand contain no artesunate (a drug made by slightly altering artemisinin so that it is soluble and can be given by injection as well as...
    Health Artemisia Malaria

  5. Hope against Malaria

    20-04-2007 For several years, ECHO staff members have followed reports on the use of Artemisia annua to treat malaria. Though artemisia leaves have been used medicinally to reduce fever for 2000 years, we hesitated to write about it, because it is a temperate plant. But there is now a variety of artemisia...
    Artemisia Malaria Anamed

  6. Update on Papaya Leaf Tea

    20-07-2003 In the article about papaya leaf tea that was published in EDN Issue 77, we did not mention the possibility that regular ingestion of the tea could lead to side effects (because we had not heard of any). Since we published that article, a few items have come to our attention that we would like to...
    Health Papaya Malaria

  7. Artemisia is in the News Again

    01-04-2009 In EDN 95, ECHO discussed how to grow and use leaves of artemisia as part of malaria treatment by those who have no access to commercial drugs. East African farmers have now become key suppliers of artemisia leaves for the pharmaceutical industry. According to the New York Times, “The parasite...
    Artemisia Malaria

  8. Insecticide-treated Nets for Malaria Control: a Directory of Suppliers of Insecticides and Mosquito Nets for sub-Saharan Africa

    20-10-2001 InEDNissue 68, we published an article on treating bednets with insecticide for the prevention of malaria. This is a technique which is currently being widely promoted throughout the developing world. It seems very effective when compared to other low-cost methods of malaria prevention. Since...
    Malaria

  9. SAWBO - Malaria Prevention

    Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to people through the bite of the femaleAnophelesmosquito. Symptoms of malaria are: high fever, chills, abdominal pain, headaches, tiredness and fatigue. If anyone experiences these symptoms, it is important to go to the nearest...
    SAWBO Human Health Malaria

  10. SAWBO - Malaria Prevention: Bed Nets

    Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to people through the bite of the femaleAnophelesmosquito. Symptoms of malaria are: high fever, chills, abdominal pain, headaches, tiredness and fatigue. If anyone experiences these symptoms, it is important to go to the nearest...
    SAWBO Human Health Malaria