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First Nigerian manufacturer obtains WHO prequalification for key malaria prevention drug
News | 21 August 2024
...chemoprevention and intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy WHO has revised the guidelines for three crucial malaria prevention strategies: seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC, formerly known as intermittent...
Health Care’s Climate Footprint: Saving Lives without Costing the Earth
News | 09 January 2024
...grows to more than seven thousand metric tons of API per year. That massive weight itself consists of three distinct APIs, each requiring four to five sequential chemical reactions, with...
Unitaid seeks to build on its successful work in malaria chemoprevention; approves measures for greater agility
News | 22 November 2019
...clears the way for Unitaid to build on its investments in chemoprevention, which has proved very effective and affordable. Malaria chemoprevention refers to providing medication to prevent malaria. “Chemoprevention is...
Unitaid announces new funding opportunity aimed at improving outcomes for children with severe anemia
News | 28 August 2024
...and 6% of in-hospital deaths. Post-discharge malaria chemoprevention is a three-month course of antimalarial drugs given to children after hospitalization for severe anemia. In 2022, the World Health Organization recommended...
Global health agency Unitaid announces ambitious goal of introducing several “climate-smart” health products by 2030 in a new climate and health strategy released on COP28 Health Day
News | 03 December 2023
...heat stability, reduced plastic content, or are made with “green chemistry,” a chemical product design approach that reduces or eliminates the use of hazardous byproducts. Shaping markets to create sustainable...
Innovation critical to achieving the commitments to reduce deaths from malaria made at Ministerial Meeting this week
News | 07 March 2024
...spatial repellents that slowly release chemicals to ward off mosquitoes help provide an additional layer of protection for people when they may not be protected by a bed net. Building...
A record 45 million children accessed seasonal malaria chemoprevention in 2021 thanks to Unitaid’s pioneering investments
News | 09 December 2022
...intervention, called seasonal malaria chemoprevention, reduces malaria infections by more than 70% among children who are at greatest risk of infection and death from malaria. Unitaid pioneered adoption of this...
Nearly three-quarters of a million young lives saved as seasonal malaria chemoprevention marks 10 years since start of first pilots
News | 02 March 2023
A report published today highlights the efforts and partnerships that were integral in expanding the reach of Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) 45-fold since 2013. Considered too complex to be feasible...
Unitaid seeks proposals to expand malaria chemoprevention for infants, following new WHO report
News | 04 December 2019
Geneva – Unitaid today issued a call for proposals to increase malaria prevention for infants, a move that builds upon the organization’s work in malaria chemoprevention and responds to priorities...