Human unconventional T cells in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection (Publications)
field of malaria immunology. Significant advances in our basic understanding of unconventional T cell biology in rodent malaria models have been made, however, their roles in humans during malaria are less [...] tissues, and long-lasting expansions and functional alterations were observed upon malaria infection in malaria naïve and malaria pre-exposed volunteers. Here, we review the current understanding of involvement [...] Malaria is an old scourge of humankind and has a large negative impact...
MMC elimination costing (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/mmc-elimination-costing
of malaria elimination interventions. This includes surveillance and a range of targeted and focal malaria elimination interventions when added incrementally to current levels of routine malaria control [...] model developed based on data collected by current malaria elimination trials, (2) estimates of costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of malaria elimination interventions and strategies for a number [...] number of policy relevant scenarios simulated with a simulation model of malar...
Multi-scale mathematical modelling of parasite, drug and vaccine interactions: optimising public health and disease elimination strategies (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/projects/project-detail/project/multi-scale-mathematical-modelling-of-parasite-drug-and-vaccine-interactions-optimising-public-health-and-disease-elimination-strategies
are best able to reduce and halt malaria transmission. Mathematical modelling can help understand malaria dynamics and interactions between malaria tools and the malaria parasite, human and mosquito hosts [...] been made over the last decades in controlling malaria. From 2000 to 2015 scale-up of control and curative interventions enabled a 60% reduction in malaria death rates and a 40% reduction in rate of clinical [...] disease. Despite these gains, we face significant challenges if we are to...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
World Tuberculosis Day 2021 (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/world-tuberculosis-day-2021
With 10 million new cases and 1.4 million TB deaths every year, TB kills more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. Even though COVID-19 has claimed more lives since the beginning of the pandemic, the collateral [...] by some as “the next pandemic”. "With 10 million new cases and more deaths than caused by HIV and malaria combined, tuberculosis remains one of the top infectious killers of humankind." Why are we still
Analytics and Intervention Modelling (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/eph/health-interventions/analytics-and-intervention-modelling
Foundation President's Malaria Initiative Malaria Consortium Links & Downloads openMalaria r-openMalariaUtilities Emilie Pothin: "Modeling the impact of community health workers on malaria elimination" MOSASWA [...] more OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages The work of the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group is based on OpenMalaria : an open-source C++ program for simulating malaria epidemiology [...] use OpenMalaria for applied country-specific scenario simulations....
Corine Karema (People)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/staff/profile/people/corine-karema
of malaria control strategies, policies and research, which has guided most of the evidence-based malaria control interventions in Rwanda. She has designed and led the impact evaluation of malaria control [...] former Director of the Rwanda National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) where she served in this role for 10 years. From 2011 to May 2016, she was also the head of Malaria & Other Parasitic Diseases (Neglected [...] Corine was also the Co–chair of the East African Roll Back Malaria...
Winter Symposium 2016 (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/about/events/winter-symposium-2016
of Malaria control and elimination. Topics will include: Malaria Control History, Successes and the Way Forward Vector Control Antimalarial Drug Discovery Extending the Use of Antimalarials Malaria Vaccines [...] Likwela, National Malaria Control Programme, DR Congo 14:00 Focus on Tanzania, Renata Mandike, National Malaria Control Programme, Tanzania 14:30 Swiss TPH’s Support to the Global Malaria Control Effort, [...] Marcel Tanner, Swiss TPH 09:00 History of Malaria Control and Lessons...
50 years of Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/news/news-detail-1/news/50-years-of-papua-new-guinea-institute-of-medical-research
and Epidemiology unit at Swiss TPH. Worrying increase of malaria in Papua New Guinea PNG is at a key stage of controlling and eliminating malaria, having achieved large reductions in prevalence throughout [...] University of Basel. Swiss TPH and PNGIMR are supporting the national malaria programme and are involved in a new round of nationwide malaria evaluation from 2018 to 2020. Both parties are also involved in field [...] field studies which investigate reasons for on-going residual...
