Acute febrile illness is a common cause of patients seeking health care settings posing a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the health care workers. In this article we describe the clinical, laboratory, serological and radiological features of Malaria as a cause of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness among the health care workers admitted in the Department of Medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. Their duration of stay in the hospital was found to be 3.8 days on an average The duration of fever of the was found to be 3.6 days. The majority of cases of malaria were positive in the month of August followed by September and October. Most common clinical features were myalgia and pain abdomen. 75% of the individuals had leukocytosis and none had leukopenia. Health-care providers should be familiar with prevention, recognition, and treatment of malaria.

Acute febrile illness is a common cause of patients seeking health care settings posing a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the health care workers. In this article we describe the clinical, laboratory, serological and radiological features of Dengue as a cause of Acute Undifferentiated Febrile Illness among the patients admitted in the Department of Medicine at Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. The mean age of the study participants suffering from dengue was found to be 36.1 years. The study participants were found to have rash over the body in 80% of the study participants. 60% of the study participants suffering from dengue had petechial hemorrhages. Among all the cases of dengue admitted in the department of general medicine 67% had anaemia and leukopenia, 27% thrombocytopenia 33% had raised hematocrit, 27% had raised serum creatinine.

Until recent years, public interest and political investment in malaria prevention, control, and research have been stagnant. The global malaria agenda is now experiencing an unprecedented time of public and political will and momentum. At the heart of this favorable period lies a nascent, but increasingly sophisticated, global advocacy effort that has contributed to new and expanded malaria funding, programs, and technology. This paper reviews the elements of malaria's rise to political and public prominence, tracks the increase in funding and policy commitments to malaria over the past decade, and comments on an evolving policymaking progress, increasing transparency and accountability in program governance, and the impact of philanthropic investments in malaria advocacy.