Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement (News)
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cases of malaria worldwide and 600,000 deaths. Most tragically, most of these deaths were children under the age of five. This year’s World Malaria Day, under the motto “Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Investment [...] development and the importance of improving health systems. World Malaria Day 2023 at Swiss TPH Swiss TPH actively contributes to global malaria control and elimination by developing new drugs and interventions [...] President of the Swiss Malaria Group. Lengeler emphasised that,...
Malaria Trends in DRC (Page)
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Malaria Trends in DRC 09.02.2017 by Sabina Beatrice-Matter The Swiss TPH conducted a large-scale assessment of trends in malaria morbidity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from 2005 to 2015 together [...] the National Malaria Control Program of Congo DRC, the Department of Health Information Systems and the Kinshasa School of Public Health. Number of monthly suspected cases tested for malaria stratified by [...] sharp increase of confirmed malaria cases after the introduction of rapid...
Malaria Photo and Video Contest (Page)
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The Swiss Malaria Group and its partners are launching a worldwide #EndMalaria Photo and Video Contest. All Swiss TPH News Malaria Malaria Photo and Video Contest 16.01.2017 by Konstantina Boutsika Participate [...] pictures will be featured widely in malaria-relevant events and documents. Deadline is the 1st of March 2017, so that the winners can be announced for World Malaria Day 2017. We are looking for powerful [...] powerful images within three thematic categories that tell stories about ma...
Mehr Innovation – Weniger Armut: Basler Institutionen spielen gegen Malaria auf (Page)
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Wissenschaft und globalem Engagement zur Bekämpfung von Malaria in ärmeren Ländern ein. Anlässlich des 10. Welt-Malaria-Tags zeigen die Swiss Malaria Group Mitglieder, Novartis, Syngenta, Clariant, Medicus [...] eine Welt ohne Malaria und damit auch für eine Welt mit weniger Armut. Denn Malaria und Armut sind eng miteinander verknüpft. Wenn sich ein Kleinbauer während der Erntezeit mit Malaria infiziert, kann [...] Engagement zu verstärken, um Malaria als globales Problem endlich Geschichte...
Sporozoite immunization: innovative translational science to support the fight against malaria (Publications)
'sporozoites,' 'malaria,' and 'vaccines.' EXPERT OPINION: First generation (radiation-attenuated) PfSPZ vaccines are safe, well tolerated, 80-100% efficacious against homologous controlled human malaria infection [...] INTRODUCTION: Malaria, a devastating febrile illness caused by protozoan parasites, sickened 247,000,000 people in 2021 and killed 619,000, mostly children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A highly [...] effective vaccine is urgently needed, especially for Plasmodium...
Diagnostic de malaria chez le praticien: comment gérer (Publications)
Malaria is the disease to exclude when dealing with a patient coming back from an endemic area with fever. We need reliable diagnostic tools with negative likelihood ratio (LR-) close to zero (-> high [...] 08 (estimated in a meta-analysis of RDT in non-immune travelers), the probability of falciparum malaria is 1% after a negative RDT. When the RDT is positive, the patient should always be treated with an
Meta-analysis: accuracy of rapid tests for malaria in travelers returning from endemic areas (Publications)
PURPOSE: To determine the accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for ruling out malaria in nonimmune travelers returning from malaria-endemic areas. DATA SOURCES: The authors searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CAB Health [...] diagnosis of P. malariae or P. ovale were close to 1.0 for both types of tests. In febrile travelers returning from sub-Saharan Africa, the typical probability of P. falciparum malaria is estimated at [...] of rapid diagnostic tests improves outcomes in returning travelers with...