MALARIA VACCINE - Safety And Immunogenicity Of Novel Candidate Blood-Stage Malaria Vaccine P27A With Alhydrogel (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/malaria-vaccine-safety-and-immunogenicity-of-novel-candidate-blood-stage-malaria-vaccine-p27a-with-alhydrogel
Further research and optimisation of new malaria vaccines and technologies is ongoing at Swiss TPH. This includes testing of new candidates in Africa such as P27a that was brought in one go from a Phase [...] that the novel adjuvant GLA-SE induces significant cellular immune responses specific for P27a in malaria pre-exposed volunteers.
Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/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 [...] Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024...
Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/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...
OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/openmalaria-workflow-and-openmalariautilities-r-packages
Swiss TPH GitHub . OpenMalariaUtilities R Package At the core of our OpenMalaria Workflow is the OpenMalariaUtilities R package which is developed to allow the use of OpenMalaria directly from R. The package [...] OpenMalaria Workflow R Package The work of the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group is based on OpenMalaria : an open-source C++ program for simulating malaria epidemiology and the impacts on that [...] TPH GitHub. The OpenMalaria Workflow R Package together with the OpenMalariaU...
Child Health and Infection with Low Density (CHILD) Malaria, a randomized controlled trial to assess the long-term health and socioeconomic impact of... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/child-health-and-infection-with-low-density-child-malaria-a-randomized-controlled-trial-to-assess-the-long-term-health-and-socioeconomic-impact-of-interventions-targeting-low-density-malaria-infection-lmi-among-children-in-tanzania
As malaria transmission declines, an increasing proportion of infections persist in the body at low levels. Low-density malaria infection (LMI) are often chronic and represent a high proportion of infections [...] they may provide protective immunity again future malaria illness. There is a growing body evidence to suggest that LMI are associated with recurrent malaria, chronic anemia, poor growth, co-infection with [...] for malaria (using RDT and qPCR) three times annually, with AL...
R. Geigy Award 2022 Goes to Three Researchers for Work on Malaria and Tuberculosis Control in Africa (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/r-geigy-award-2022-goes-to-three-researchers-for-work-on-malaria-and-tuberculosis-control-in-africa
including cell cultures of malaria parasites, which allows them to test the effect of new vaccines or drugs on malaria transmission. "If we stick to the goal of eliminating malaria, we also need new interventions [...] research platform opens up new perspectives in the fight against malaria In recent decades, there has been great progress in the fight against malaria in Africa. However, many people in endemic areas are still [...] their achievements in the field of setting up a research...
Molecular Signatures can Predict the Efficacy of Malaria Vaccines (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/molecular-signatures-can-predict-the-efficacy-of-malaria-vaccines
immunized with the most advanced malaria vaccine (Mosquirix or RTS,S) and another experimental malaria vaccination approach targeting also the pre-erythrocytic stage of malaria. Combining genomics with data [...] individuals, suggest there are common protective responses against malaria," says Carlota Dobaño, study coordinator and head of the Malaria Immunology Group at ISGlobal. "The results also confirm the potential [...] surrogates to determine the efficacy of these and other malaria vaccine...
World Malaria Day 2020: Urgent Action Is Critical to Save Lives (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/world-malaria-day-2020-urgent-action-is-critical-to-save-lives
COVID-19 pandemic. The Swiss Malaria Group, together with the internationally united actors of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, is therefore calling for action to end malaria: We must protect the lives [...] age of 5 in malaria-affected countries, provide life-saving tools to fight malaria and ensure access to treatment. To do this, we must close the annual funding gap of USD 2 billion for malaria. Stronger [...] technologies to help us counter malaria and other deadly diseases. Switzerland's...
New Mosquito Net reduces Malaria Cases (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/news-detail/news/new-mosquito-net-reduces-malaria-cases
years of age. About malaria Malaria is an infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. The parasites spread to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. Malaria still causes a [...] were published yesterday in the The Lancet. Addressing malaria through combination bed nets The clinical trial showed that the number of malaria cases was reduced by 12% with the new type of bed net compared [...] effective intervention against malaria. Continued research and development...
Mehr Innovation – Weniger Armut: Basler Institutionen spielen gegen Malaria auf (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/news/20180420-mehr-innovation-weniger-armut
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 [...] kaum mit Malaria anstecken. Das war nicht immer so. Noch vor 200 Jahren war der Rhein wild und breit und verursachte Überschwemmungen. Diese Sumpfgebiete begünstigten die Verbreitung von Malaria. Durch [...] noch immer 445‘000 Menschen an Malaria. Betroffen sind vor allem Gebiete südlich der...