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Controlling a disease as entrenched as malaria, which kills over one million people a year is an enormous challenge. New policies, strategies and solutions are urgently needed.
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Opinions and Analysis
The right way to tackle malaria with GM mosquitoes
GM mosquitoes could help control malaria in Africa but their development must involve local scientists, write Paul Eggleston and Mamadou Coulibaly.
Why we must eliminate malaria from Hispaniola
Eliminating malaria from Haiti and the Dominican Republic would set a global precedent, say Joseph Keating, Donald Krogstad and Thomas Eisele.
29 April 2010
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Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Glaxo sets example to other drug companies
2 February 2010
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Source: Nature
BioMed Analysis: Don't overlook nutrition in disease fight
21 January 2010
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Policy Briefs
Controlling insect pests with GM technology
Genetically modified insects provide a new method for controlling insect-borne diseases and agricultural insect pests.
8 July 2010
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Source: The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Policies to reduce malaria regardless of climate change
Policies to combat malaria are needed regardless of climate change, which has a far smaller impact on the disease than human activity.
9 September 2009
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Source: Sustainable Development Network
News and Features
'Exciting' new odour sensors found in malaria mosquitoes
Scientists have identified new scent receptors in mosquitoes that could help develop more agents to lure, repel and kill the insects.
3 September 2010
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Malaria goals 'cannot be met' with existing weapons
Ambitious international goals to eliminate malaria will fail without new tools, a model predicts.
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