Accelerated Research and Development Needed to End Malaria (News)
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and improve access to services and better surveillance to guide a more targeted malaria response. “To achieve a malaria-free world, we must reinvigorate the drive to find the transformative strategies [...] “Rising to the Challenge of Malaria Eradication” to be held in Geneva on 9 September 2019. Saving lives and boosting economies The findings show that scaling up current malaria interventions would prevent [...] Training for Malaria Control and Elimination. Over the past 3 years, SAGme has...
Malaria Mortality in Africa May Be Higher than Estimated (News)
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confirm that malaria parasite prevalence alone fails to fully capture the association with mortality. The malaria-anaemia comorbidity indicator provides a better measure to estimate the malaria burden." Results [...] number of deaths caused by malaria, different methods and data sources have been utilised. Most studies to date, however, have not taken into account indirect deaths from malaria such as anaemia. Studies [...] Studies also mainly used malaria parasite prevalence as a key measure,...
Changes in Mosquito Behaviour Could Result in Millions of Additional Malaria Cases (News)
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Countries have substantially reduced the number of malaria cases and deaths since 2000. However, progress has stalled in recent years with an increase in malaria cases and deaths reported in sub-Saharan Africa [...] vector control interventions to prevent malaria transmission, however, they primarily protect against mosquito bites when people are indoors. 12 million additional malaria cases to be expected A new study found [...] London, the University of Surrey, the U.S. President's Malaria...
New Findings on Malaria Vaccine (News)
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with low malaria transmission (Bagomoyo in Tanzania) and two areas with high malaria transmission (Nanoro in Burkina Faso and Kintampo in Ghana). Less effect if children have been exposed to malaria before [...] Carlota Dobaño from ISGlobal. The results also indicate that when a child has already been exposed to malaria (and therefore has anti-CSP antibodies), the protective effect of the vaccine is lower. “This suggests [...] “This research will help to understand the determinants of desired...
Two Decades of Swiss Leadership for New Malaria Medicines (News)
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for a future without malaria There have been huge strides in the fight against malaria in the last two decades. However, the World Malaria Report 2018 indicates the reduction of malaria cases stalled between [...] fight against malaria remains comprehensive and impactful.” Celebrating achievements and outlook to future Swiss engagement In commemoration of World Malaria Day 2019, SDC and the Swiss Malaria Group (a network [...] research Switzerland has a long history of leadership and engagement...
Need for Innovation to End Malaria (News)
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in Malaria MalERA Refresh, which updates the first Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) of 2011, is the result of a two-year consultative process involving more than 180 scientists, malaria programme [...] in the Fight against Malaria Has Stalled MalERA Refresh responds to challenges highlighted in the World Malaria Report 2017 published yesterday by WHO: While the number of malaria cases decreased significantly [...] To accelerate the fight against malaria and address current...
A milestone in the fight against malaria (News)
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that can infect the malaria mosquito and thus ensure that the parasite is transmitted to other people. Mystery solved Scientists have been speculating for years about how the malaria parasite regulates [...] Malaria parasites are both dangerous and versatile. On entering the human bloodstream, they multiply exponentially. The blood stages of the infection cause all the complications associated with this d [...] journal Cell on 9 November 2017. “For the first time ever, we have been able to...
Swiss TPH Designated WHO Collaborating Centre for its Expertise in Malaria (News)
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Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme. “The institutes’ long-term expertise in malaria research, control and elimination will be highly valuable in supporting WHO’s capacity to implement [...] spraying that are aimed at preventing malaria to support the development of updated WHO policy guidance. The agreement also acknowledges Swiss TPH’s efforts to advance malaria control and elimination through [...] An Expert Hub for Malaria Following years of fruitful collaboration, the Swiss...
The Achilles Heel of Plasmodia - Advances in Vaccine Development against Malaria (News)
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To date, there is no highly effective vaccination against malaria available. In collaboration with Joerg Benz and Markus Rudolph from the Roche Structural Biologie Unit, the Swiss TPH research group headed [...] Hidden Antigens The variability of antigens is a major problem in the development of vaccines against malaria. Most plasmodial surface proteins differ greatly among the various Plasmodia strains. For this reason [...] on the surface of virus-like particles (virosomes). In a clinical...
Malaria Trends in DRC (News)
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country, the study observed a sharp increase of confirmed malaria cases after the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests which detect evidence of malaria parasites in human blood. Population coverage across [...] distribution of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets. Presumptive malaria cases that were treated could be reduced but malaria positivity rate revealed no declining tendency. Swiss TPH therefore recommends [...] continuing to support key interventions especially in provinces with...