By Joke Kujenya MILLIONS MORE people fell ill with malaria in 2024, even as some countries marked major victories in the fight against the disease, the latest World Malaria Report (WMR) reveals. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Georgia, Suriname and Timor Leste were certified malaria free in 2025, while new malaria vaccines and next generation du...
By Joke Kujenya FoOR A child under five in West Africa, the chance of testing positive for malaria depends heavily on where they sleep at night. New evidence from laboratory-confirmed surveys shows that malaria risk is sharply uneven across borders, regions and even neighbouring communities, leaving some children far more exposed than others ...
By Joke Kujenya AT DUSK, the air hums with the sound of mosquitoes. Inside a small room in a modest apartment in Iwaya side of Lagos, children fall asleep under nets treated with new insecticides, which each night, forms a shield against a disease that has haunted families for generations. Similarly in nearby clinics, tiny […]
By Joke Kujenya The World Health Organization (WHO) has released updated malaria guidelines setting out strengthened recommendations for prevention, chemoprevention, vaccination and treatment measures. Published on 13 August 2025, the document provides evidence-based directives designed to help countries adapt malaria control strategies to lo...
By Joke Kujenya SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED they have disclosed that critical patterns hidden in the bloodstream are helping them decode how malaria progresses, unlocking a path to faster, life-saving treatments for severe cases. Researchers at Karolinska Institute  said they have identified more than 250 proteins that undergo dramatic changes durin...
By Joke Kujenya HARD-WON victories in the global fight against a centuries-old killer disease, malaria, are beginning to unravel, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO), to issue an urgent call to action on World Malaria Day 2025. Malaria is clawing its way back in parts of the world where it had once been driven into […]
By Joke Kujenya ON HOSPITAL wards in Ogbomoso, Osun State, Nigeria—where the realities of HIV and malaria overlap daily—scientists have uncovered new insights into how Plasmodium falciparum behaves in immunocompromised individuals. New research has revealed that malaria parasites found in people living with HIV (PLWH) show unexpectedly low ge...
By Joke Kujenya SCIENTISTS HAVE reveals they made a breakthrough in malaria vaccine research by intentionally infecting volunteers with malaria. This “human challenge” study, conducted by an international team, has provided crucial insights that could lead to more effective malaria vaccines. Malaria, a disease transmitted by mosqui...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNMedia Reporter  HIGHLIGHTING the gravity of the malaria situation in Nigeria, the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) underscores the alarming figures ─ 68 million reported cases and 194,000 deaths ─ as disclosed by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s 2022 report on Malaria in Nigeria. Chairperso...
By Paul Ejime News Analysis: IT IS ANOTHER World Malaria Day (WMD) today, one year after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended two candidate anti-malaria vaccines for the prevention of the mosquito-borne disease which afflicts more than 247 million people worldwide causing some 619,000 deaths. Africa bears the highest burden of malar...
