Bird Flu Threat:Stringent Poultry Import Measures In Zanzibar

Authorities in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous island in Tanzania have multiplied their efforts to curb chicken import in a bid to control the outbreak //of bird flu on the island. Scores of chickens that were illegally brought into Zanzibar from mainland Tanzania, were destroyed last w...

Simple blood test proves powerful ally in the fight against malaria

...t evaluation of the test in clinical operation. It involved four clinics on zanzibar and data from 1,887 adults and children who all had fever within 48 hours p...untries in Africa and Asia. The study was conducted in association with the zanzibar Malaria Control Programme, Mdecins Sans Frontires, the Nordic School of Pub...

USAID Recognizes World Malaria Day

... the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and private sector companies, such as Exxon-Mobil, and NGOs like Malaria No More. In Rwanda, Zambia, and zanzibar we are beginning to see signs of major reductions in the proportion of people infected with malaria. At the same time in Rwanda and Zambia, there has ...

U.S. Malaria Initiative Releases Third Annual Report

...ccording to the PMI third annual malaria report released today. Working with other development partners, the PMI has helped Rwanda, Zambia, and zanzibar to achieve major reductions in the number of people infected with malaria. Declines at the regional and district-level have also been reported from Mo...

Recent U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green Named Managing Director of Malaria No More Policy Center

...an nation celebrated the first-ever official visit by a sitting U.S. president, a dramatic reduction in malaria incidence and deaths on the Islands of zanzibar and the launch of a nationwide campaign to distribute mosquito nets to all children under five. Green has worked closely with President Kikwete and t...

Remarks by President Bush on Malaria

...ple died because of malaria. In June 2007, after a spraying campaign supported by our Malaria Initiative, the number of deaths had dropped to five. In zanzibar the percentage of infants infected with malaria has dropped from about 20 percent to less than 1 percent. The campaign to fight malaria has the supp...

Tulane University to receive $14M for international HIV/AIDS program

... million in grant money will fund HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation programs in high-risk populations in Haiti, Brazil, South Africa, Zambia, Angola, zanzibar and Rwanda. Kendall is working with Tulanes Department of International Health and Development, the Center for Global Health Equity and the Payson Cen...

Zanzibar in Biological News

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...akes, Southeast Asia * Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in drift and bottom-set gillnets on the south coast of zanzibar (Tanzania) * Harbor porpoises in coastal gillnets in the Black Sea * Spinner dolphins and Fraser's dolphins in large-mesh driftnets and purs...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

...akes, Southeast Asia * Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in drift and bottom-set gillnets on the south coast of zanzibar (Tanzania) * Harbor porpoises in coastal gillnets in the Black Sea * Spinner dolphins and Fraser's dolphins in large-mesh driftnets and purs...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

...akes, Southeast Asia * Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in drift and bottom-set gillnets on the south coast of zanzibar (Tanzania) * Harbor porpoises in coastal gillnets in the Black Sea * Spinner dolphins and Fraser's dolphins in large-mesh driftnets and purs...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

...akes, Southeast Asia * Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins and Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in drift and bottom-set gillnets on the south coast of zanzibar (Tanzania) * Harbor porpoises in coastal gillnets in the Black Sea * Spinner dolphins and Fraser's dolphins in large-mesh driftnets and purs...