Malaria standby emergency treatment (SBET) for travelers visiting malaria endemic areas: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Publications)
Malaria prevention methods for travelers to low or moderate malaria risk areas varies and remains controversial. Standby Emergency Treatment (SBET) for malaria is one possible strategy increasingly recommended [...] proportion carrying SBET, the response to fever (use of SBET, health facility attendance, use of malaria rapid diagnostic test [mRDT]), adverse events to SBET, and the proportion using SBET incorrectly [...] current SBET strategy should be considered, such as better selection of...
Epidemiological characterization of malaria in rural southern Tanzania following China-Tanzania pilot joint malaria control baseline survey (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria is an important public health problem in Tanzania. The latest national malaria data suggests rebound of the disease in the country. Anopheles arabiensis, a mosquito species renowned [...] conducted to determine malaria parasite prevalence and associated risk exposures prior to piloting the T3-initiative of World Health Organization integrated with Chinese malaria control experience aimed [...] additional reduction of malaria in the area. METHODS: The study was conducted from...
Assessment of ultra-sensitive malaria diagnosis versus standard molecular diagnostics for malaria elimination: an in-depth molecular community... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Submicroscopic malaria infections contribute to transmission in exposed populations but their extent is underestimated even by standard molecular diagnostics. Sophisticated sampling and ul [...] sensitive methods with the aim to understand what diagnostic sensitivity is necessary to guide malaria interventions. METHODS: Venous blood samples were collected from participants in a cross-sectional
Scoping Study for a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEASS) on the potential operational use of gene drive in the main malaria-carrying Anopheles... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/scoping-study-for-a-strategic-environmental-assessment-seass-on-the-potential-operational-use-of-gene-drive-in-the-main-malaria-carrying-anopheles-mosquito-species-in-west-africa-on-behalf-of-target-malaria
Target Malaria isa not-for-profit research consortium that aims to develop and share new, cost-effective, and sustainable genetic technologies to modify mosquitoes and reduce malaria transmission. The [...] The intervention which is currently in development by Target Malaria (i.e. a population suppression gene drive) works by reducing the ability of female mosquitoes to reproduce through non-mendelian inheritance [...] inheritance of an introduced gene targeting female fertility, thereby...
Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/news/accelerating-the-fight-against-malaria-world-malaria-day-2024
burden. Global malaria community in Kigali Today’s World Malaria Day aims to accelerate the fight and work together toward a malaria-free world. This week also brings together the global malaria community for [...] on topics ranging from malaria drug development, malaria genomics, drug resistance, capacity strengthening, strategic malaria planning, the impact of climate change on malaria, community-based biolarviciding [...] Head of the Malaria and NTDs Programme in Rwanda and PhD student at...
Trends in reported malaria cases and the effects of malaria control in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
upscaling of malaria control efforts have taken place over the last 15 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country with the second highest malaria case load after Nigeria. Malaria control int [...] Goals. We analysed the effects of these interventions on malaria cases at health facility level, using a retrospective trend analysis of malaria cases between 2005 and 2014. Data were collected from outpatient [...] represents all eco-epidemiological malaria settings across the country....
Malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence as a measure of malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
association of malaria parasitaemia, anemia, and malariaanemia comorbidity with all-cause under-five mortality and evaluated the potential of malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence to quantify malaria-related [...] utilized to determine the relationship between malaria and mortality in endemic countries. Most of these efforts have focused on deaths directly attributed to malaria, while they overlooked causes of mortality [...] Mortality hazard obtained from malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence...
