Country modelling to support National Malaria Control Programs - High Burden to High Impact (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/country-modelling-to-support-national-malaria-control-programs-high-burden-to-high-impact
the Roll Back Malaria partnership (RBM), public health modelers have been invited by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (“the Global Fund”) to support the national malaria programs on [...] of their data basis, current/past malaria trends in the country, and a simulation of the impact of malaria-related interventions. Our work is based on the OpenMalaria modelling platform developed by the [...] elaboration of country malaria strategic plans and provide insight to the coming...
Sub-national tailoring of malaria interventions in Mozambique (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/sub-national-tailoring-of-malaria-interventions-in-mozambique
Malaria remains a public health problem in Mozambique, with more than 10 million cases confirmed in 2020 ( WHO Malaria Report 2020 ). The Mozambique National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) leads the fight [...] fight against malaria in the country through the development and implementation of National Strategic Plans (NSP). The NSP defines the NMCP strategies for fighting malaria including the interventions selected [...] reviewed i.e. during the Malaria Program Review (MPR). NSPs form the base...
BACKUP Health Cameroon - Improving Access to Malaria Care and Services for Children Under Five: Pilot Project (Projects)
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approximately $101 million will go to malaria treatment and control programs. These funds are expected to be absorbed through the end of 2023. The National Malaria Control Program (PNLP) is working towards [...] groups of activities: Estimation of the costs of malaria treatment services and care: The aim is to propose three cost models for the management of all malaria care: "basic", "standard" and "comprehensive" [...] goal is to customize openIMIS to meet the needs of malaria care management....
Papua New Guinea National Malaria Control Programme Evaluation and Operational Research 2021 to 2023 (Projects)
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exhibits a complex malaria epidemiology with marked heterogeneity in malaria transmission. With financial support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the National Malaria Control Program [...] across PNG to assess quality of malaria case management. Activity 2: a national Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) to track progress in malaria intervention coverage and malaria prevalence on national and regional [...] changing malaria epidemiology in PNG (including aspects related...
Preclinical profiling of virosomally formulated B-cell epitope mimetics derived from the novel key malaria vaccine candidates CyRPA and RH5 (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/preclinical-profiling-of-virosomally-formulated-b-cell-epitope-mimetics-derived-from-the-novel-key-malaria-vaccine-candidates-cyrpa-and-rh5
Clinical testing of two components for a synthetic peptide-based virosomal malaria vaccine has yielded promising results, encouraging the search for additional components for inclusion in a final multivalent
Impact of systems failures in malaria service delivery in Africa (Projects)
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evaluate effective coverage of malaria curative interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa. We quantify excess morbidity and mortality induced by sub-optimal distribution of malaria services incorporating, among [...] Malaria treatment provides individual benefits by curing infection and preventing progression to severe disease. Treatment also provides community-level benefits by reducing the infectious reservoir. However [...] ent and the extent of health benefits achieved by such care, thus has...
Understanding the human, parasite, vector and environmental interactions driving residual malaria transmission in Papua New Guinea (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/understanding-the-human-parasite-vector-and-environmental-interactions-driving-residual-malaria-transmission-in-papua-new-guinea
The scale-up of malaria control in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has resulted in a significant reduction in the nationwide prevalence and incidence of malaria. However, this effect has not been uniform across [...] address this knowledge gap by: measuring the prevalence and distribution of malaria infection to assess the magnitude of residual malaria at the time of study, studying the Anopheles vectors to characterize local [...] heterogeneity in malaria transmission and the its driving factors is...
Malaria Course in Tanzania and Laos (Projects)
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activities in the field of malaria. To improve skills in time management, presenting, writing research proposals. At the end of the course, the participants should be able to manage malaria issues more effectively [...] A four-week postgraduate course on malaria prevention, control & elimination. Course objectives are: Building capacity by reinforcing knowledge and expertise of persons involved in the care of patients