Sentences with phrase «die from malaria»

«Children sleeping under insecticide - treated nets (ITNs) are less likely to die from malaria and nets should be distributed free to all who need them, according to research from Kenya.»

Yet even establishing how many people die from malaria is fraught with complications.

World Health Organisation figures show that cooking on traditional open fires his a hidden killer — responsible for the death of 4 million people a year — more than die from Malaria, Tuberculosis and HIV combined.

Worldwide as many die from HAI as die from malaria.

It's a deeply unfriendly survival game in which you can die from malaria, food poisoning and starvation, as well as being eaten or by breaking your leg after falling down a slightly - too - steep hill.

That's more than the number of people who die from malaria, HIV / AIDS, and TB put together.

The World Health Organization estimates more than half a million people die from malaria every year, mostly children under five.

It is still a big problem in Africa, where half a million people (mostly children) died from malaria in 2013.

A disease poised to spread According to the World Health Organization, more than 650,000 people died from malaria in 2010, most of whom were African children.

In 2013, the World Health Organisation estimated that worldwide 584,000 people died from malaria, 90 % of which were children under five living in Africa, while 198 million were infected.

Despite the positive impact of medication, indoor spraying with insecticides and the use of insecticide bed - nets, around 429,000 people died from malaria in 2015, mostly in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation's World Malaria Report.

According to a report from today's New York Times, the boy pharaoh died from malaria — not murder.

Over 200 million people contract malaria each year, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010.

He points the finger at the Club of Rome for banning DDT once they realized that Africans not dying from malaria and other diseases would live longer and have more children.

Global efforts have halved the number of people dying from malaria — a tremendous achievement, the World Health Organization says.

How convenient, then, that UN Environment Program's Nick Nutter can deadpan, «when someone here dies from malaria, they say God has taken them» — not baby - killing policies.

India has made significant progress in decreasing the number of cases of malaria and the number of deaths caused by the disease (although the official numbers of rural Indians dying from malaria remains underestimated).

Not exact matches

Today, 214 million people catch malaria from an infected mosquito, and 438,000 people die from the disease every year.

While health problems ranging from malaria to AIDS to respiratory tract diseases are common there, transportation can be difficult to find, which means that distance can dictate whether a person lives or dies.

Worldwide, women ages fifteen to forty - four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

Right now, women age 15 - 44 are more likely to be maimed or to die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

And when mom dies a completely «natural» death from untreated HIV / AIDS, TB, Malaria, Cholera (the list goes on and on) the older children will have to start looking after the younger children resulting in thousands of child headed households.

As a human being: As a human being living in Africa, I am more prone to die through preventable diseases such as cholera and malaria; it is more probable that I will experience wars and conflicts; I am more likely to live under one dollar a day and for either myself or my children to suffer from malnutrition.

Some 214 million people suffered from malaria last year of which 438,000 died from the disease, according to the organisation.

«In malaria control, what we are trying to do is detect people with malaria and treat them, prevent people from dying and being sick,» Nosten explains.

Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, one of the lead authors of the paper, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, said: «We can now say, unequivocally, that genetic variations in this region of the human genome provide strong protection against severe malaria in real - world settings, making a difference to whether a child lives or dies.

POWs began dying from the combined effects of malaria, cholera and malnutrition.

More than half (51 · 8 %) of children died from infectious causes, including pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria.

Prior to the widespread use of quinine, in fact, it was mosquito - borne malaria that largely protected Africa from European colonists, who died from the disease in such high numbers that the west coast of Africa was dubbed the white man's grave.

The question is urgent, because more than two million people die every year from Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, and understanding its origins might one day lend clues to its complex biology.

April 11, 2018 - Ruth Nussenzweig, who for a half - century pursued one of medical science's most elusive goals, a vaccine for malaria, helping to bring the research from the seems - impossible stage to the brink of a breakthrough, died on April 1 in Manhattan.

About a half million die each year from malaria.

Globally, more people die from cancer than from AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.

Even today, two million people die every year from malaria transmitted by mosquitoes, mainly in Africa.

What happens when you freeze or drown or die of thirst or contract malaria or fall from a mountain?

I would later learn that in 2008, there were 247 million cases of malaria and nearly one million deaths in the world — mostly among children living in Africa, where a child dies every 45 seconds from it, 3,000 of those are children under the age of five.

Malaria is still one of the leading causes of death in Africa and other areas, with 655,000 people dying every year from the virus that is spread by mosquitos.

There are more than 200 million people infected with malaria and each ear 1.2 million people die from this disease, mostly children

They project that half a million people will die, in 2030, they say, from the same malaria, malnutrition and diarrhoea, caused by climate change.

In the event, it turned out (after the hue and cry had died down) that DDT's toxicity had been wildly exaggerated, and that cessation of its use had resulted in millions of African deaths from malaria.

From these 50 million, about 10 thousand women and 200 thousand of their infants die as a result of malaria infection during pregnancy.

Why do they focus attention on only 32,000 deaths when over 58 million are dying from other major causes (starvation, malaria, cancer, etc.)?

Just last month, research by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed that pneumonia has killed more Kenyans that malaria in the past year, and that people who use kerosene, animal waste, charcoal and wood fuel for lighting and cooking — especially in rural Kenya — are more likely to die from pneumonia [1].