The malaria parasite may be gaining resistance against artemisinin, the drug most often used to try and save children with ...

Between treating patients, she says, they voice their concerns: "'Malaria's very stubborn,'" she says they tell her. "'It's not responding to treatment.'" Namazzi is a pediatrician at Mulago ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Unica Cardoso, 35, center in blue-purple headwrap, waits in line for ...

Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

"I was surrounded by malaria. All of my friends had it, I had it, my siblings and parents." Bello Abdul Hakeem Bolaji is one of the millions of people across Africa who've grown up with malaria.

Stephanie Nolen covers the global threat of infectious diseases including malaria. Malaria infection rates are soaring in Ethiopia, where a combination of armed conflict, climate change and ...