PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: Malaria Treatment and Prevention Strategies
This video segment adapted from Rx for Survival examines malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a disease that kills more than one million children there each year. [4:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Joel Breman Thinks World Can Eliminate Malaria by 2050
Learn about the current efforts to prevent the spread of malaria, from prevention techniques to the drugs that are available. Joel Breman talks about a how a new class of drugs and bed nets treated with insecticide can offer protection...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Treatment of Malaria
This video explains the different treatments for malaria based on the severity of the disease. [8:30]
A&E Television
History.com: The Engineering That Built the World: The Panama Canal
Two powerful nations -- France and America -- compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge: Eradicating Malaria With Ddt
Discover the story of Dr. Fred Soper and his efforts to eliminate malaria in this video segment adapted from Rx for Survival. Dr. Soper targeted the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the species known to spread malaria. He devised a strategy...
Sumanas
Sumanas Inc: Malaria: Cooperation Among Parasite, Vector, and Host
This animation shows how the malaria life cycle is completed through mosquitos and humans.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Tropical Medicine Update
We'll check in on the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting and talk about highlights from the conference.