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Malaria in The News

• Drive Saves Lives
  The WHO reports that a "phenomenal expansion" in efforts to curtail malaria is saving hundreds of thousands of lives each year.
  > 14/12/2010
• Mobile Phones & Malaria
  Mobile phones could soon be helping re-assure Nigerians and Ghanaians they are getting genuine medicine.
  > 14/12/2010
• New Gates Malaria Grant
  Scientists in Liverpool have been given $50m (£31.1m) by Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates to develop new insecticides to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
  > 22/11/2010
• Avoiding Mosquito Bites
  Protection from biting insects could be at hand after researchers discovered a new way of repelling them – by pretending to be one of their predators.
  > 29/08/2010
• New Drug Developed
  Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have produced a new drug to treat malaria.
  > 17/08/2010
• Mandy Moore Plea
  Pop star/actress Mandy Moore is urging her fans to donate money to buy malaria nets for Africa.
  > 05/08/2010

• Malaria Map
  Nearly 3 billion people, or two-fifths of the world's population, were at risk of contracting malaria in 2009 and closer study of the mosquito's life cycle is needed to combat the disease.
  > 04/08/2010
• Youssou N’Dour
  One of Africa's most celebrated singers played a rare one-off concert in London to draw attention to the campaign against malaria.
  > 19/07/2010
• Malaria Proof Mosquito
  Scientists in the US have succeeded in genetically engineering a malaria-resistant mosquito
  > 16/07/2010
• Cheryl Cole Recovering
  Singer Cheryl Cole has left the intensive care unit where she was being treated for malaria.
  > 09/07/2010