Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the World Health Organization’s Africa region.

A new network aims to improve malaria prevention among school-aged children in sub-Saharan Africa. The new partnership, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and funded by Open Philanthropy ...

Novartis said on Tuesday it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and very young children.