Repeated mass distributions and continuous distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets: modelling sustainability of health benefits from mosquito... (Publications)
LLIN distribution were also examined. METHODS: Dynamic simulations of malaria in humans and mosquitoes were run on the OpenMalaria platform, using stochastic individual-based simulation models. LLINs were [...] BACKGROUND: Stagnating funds for malaria control have spurred interest in the question of how to sustain the gains of recent successes with long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and improved case management [...] management (CM). This simulation study examined the malaria transmission...
The treatment of non-malarial febrile illness in Papua New Guinea: findings from cross sectional and longitudinal studies of health worker practice (Publications)
recently shifted from a presumptive to a 'test and treat' malaria case management policy. This shift was supported by the widespread introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health facilities across [...] detailing how to conduct and interpret a malaria rapid diagnostic test and how to treat test positive cases; however, little instruction on treating non-malaria febrile cases was provided. Accordingly, [...] l febrile patients in the 12-month period immediately following the...
Frédéric Tripet (People)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/staff/profile/people/frederic-tripet
facilities at the Malaria Research and Training center in Mali, West Africa. From 2018-2023 F. Tripet was a partner and field entomology technical coordinator on the Target Malaria consortium, a not- [...] and focus on the applied integrative biology of mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens, such as Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, with a view on developing novel tools for their control. From 2008 [...] that aims to develop new approaches to sterile male mosquito releases to reduce the...
Repellents and new "spaces of concern" in global health (Publications)
Today, malaria prevention hinges upon two domestic interventions: insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying. As mosquitoes grow resistant to these tools, however, novel approaches to vector [...] vector control have become a priority area of malaria research and development. Spatial repellency, a volumetric mode of action that seeks to reduce disease transmission by creating an atmosphere inimical [...] of a non-insecticidal paradigm of vector control for how we understand the...
Repellents and new "spaces of concern" in global health (Publications)
Today, malaria prevention hinges upon two domestic interventions: insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying. As mosquitoes grow resistant to these tools, however, novel approaches to vector [...] vector control have become a priority area of malaria research and development. Spatial repellency, a volumetric mode of action that seeks to reduce disease transmission by creating an atmosphere inimical [...] of a non-insecticidal paradigm of vector control for how we understand the...
Creating an "enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to national scale: the Tanzanian experience (Publications)
of its population at high risk of malaria by 2005. The country is, therefore, determined to ensure that sustainable malaria control using insecticide-treated nets is carried out on a national scale. CASE [...] INTRODUCTION: Malaria is the largest cause of health services attendance, hospital admissions and child deaths in Tanzania. At the Abuja Summit in April 2000 Tanzania committed itself to protect 60% of [...] been involved for two decades in the research process for developing...
Creating an "enabling environment" for taking insecticide treated nets to national scale: the Tanzanian experience (Publications)
of its population at high risk of malaria by 2005. The country is, therefore, determined to ensure that sustainable malaria control using insecticide-treated nets is carried out on a national scale. CASE [...] INTRODUCTION: Malaria is the largest cause of health services attendance, hospital admissions and child deaths in Tanzania. At the Abuja Summit in April 2000 Tanzania committed itself to protect 60% of [...] been involved for two decades in the research process for developing...
Melissa Penny speaks about the beauty of disease modelling (Blog)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/impact-stories/the-beauty-of-disease-modelling/blog-id/25
disease modelling for over 15 years. She joins us today to discuss the first malaria vaccine, disease modelling and the future of malaria eradication.
Promising Genotyping Technique for Assessing Antimalarial Drug Efficacy (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/de/news/news-detail-1/news/promising-genotyping-technique-for-assessing-antimalarial-drug-efficacy
significant progress made in malaria control over the last twenty years. To ensure the continued effectiveness of antimalarial drugs, it is important to determine whether the malaria parasites in a patient's [...] Malaria remains a major global health concern, with 249 million cases and 608,000 deaths reported in 2022. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are currently one of the main strategies in the [...] patient's blood after malaria treatment are the same or different from those...
Differential expression of var gene groups is associated with morbidity caused by <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>infection in Tanzanian children (Publications)
uncomplicated, and asymptomatic malaria. Transcripts of var group A and B genes were more abundant in patients with severe malaria than in patients with uncomplicated malaria. In general, the transcript [...] abundances of var group A and B genes were higher for children with clinical malaria than for children with asymptomatic infections. The var group C and var1-like transcript abundances were similar between
