Introducing insecticide-treated nets in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania: the relevance of local knowledge and practice for an information, education... (Publications)
practice relating to malaria. The findings show that the biomedical concept of malaria overlaps with several local illness concepts, one of which is called malaria and refers to mild malaria. Most respondents [...] linked malaria to mosquitoes (76%) and already used mosquito nets (52%). But local understandings of severe malaria differed from the biomedical concept and were not linked to mosquitoes or malaria. A social [...] Since 1997 the WHO has been recommending an integrative strategy to...
Profile: the rusinga health and demographic surveillance system, western Kenya (Publications)
2012 to facilitate a malaria intervention trial: the SolarMal project. The project aims to eliminate malaria from Rusinga Island using the nationwide adopted strategy for malaria control (insecticide-treated [...] surveillance is to measure the effectiveness of the trial on clinical malaria incidence, and to monitor demographic, environmental and malaria-related data variables. At the end of 2014, the 44 km2 island had [...] surveyed for clinical malaria. Following each round of surveillance, a...
Christian Lengeler (People)
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of the National Malaria Control Programme in DR Congo and in Tanzania. Professor Lengeler’s group is currently working on understanding and improving access to malaria treatment in malaria-endemic countries [...] control of tropical diseases, with a strong focus on malaria. He has been involved in the development of insecticide treated nets (ITN) as a malaria control tool, and was responsible for pioneering many [...] Professional activities at Swiss TPH Professor Christian Lengeler leads the Ma...
Barbara Matthys (People)
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to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in several African countries. She has technically assisted National Malaria Programs in Central Asia in strategic reviews of malaria elimination activities. Barbara [...] support to a DFID funded malaria control project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Barbara Matthys has carried out Data Quality Audits and impact assessments of malaria grants for the Global Fund [...] Institute. She has solid experience in programmatic performance and monitoring...
Winter Symposium 2016 (Page)
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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...
From <em>Plasmodium vivax</em> outbreak to elimination: lessons learnt from a retrospective analysis of data from Guantang (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Malaria was once a serious public health problem in China, with Plasmodium vivax the major species responsible for more than 90% of local transmission. Following significant integrated malaria control [...] control and elimination programmes, malaria burden declined, and since 2017 China has not recorded any indigenous case. To understand the historical malaria transmission patterns and epidemic characteristics [...] regarding Anopheles sinensis. RESULTS: Following 25 years of...
Jeanne Lemant (People)
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especially worked with the Benin National Malaria Control Programme to identify how to extend seasonal malaria chemoprevention to avert the most severe malaria cases. I hold a MSc in Applied Mathematics [...] support National Malaria Control Programme in taking decisions based on all available evidence. I am working on estimating and integrating vector bionomics and biting behaviours into malaria transmission models
Flavia Camponovo (People)
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of multiscale malaria models, and combine epidemiological data with genomic data to inform malaria surveillance. Her PhD focused on mathematical models and quantitative analysis for malaria vaccine interventions [...] Intervention Modelling group at Swiss-TPH, Dr. Flavia Camponovo leverages agent-based malaria models to inform national malaria strategic plans. Native French and German, she is fluent in English, and proficient [...] concepts to mathematical models to understand key mechanisms in...
National Reference Centre for Diagnostics and Therapy of Human Parasitic Infections (Page)
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NZP deals with all aspects of malaria diagnosis, acts as a reference laboratory for malaria and is actively involved in the development and evaluation of tests for malaria and other imported parasitoses [...] supports doctors and hospitals in the treatment of malaria patients. The NZP offers malaria emergency diagnostics and a 24-hour hotline for suspected malaria cases and emergencies and can provide expert advice [...] Centre for Diagnostics and Therapy of Human Parasitoses (NZP) provides...
Health Interventions | Research at Swiss TPH (Page)
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MaMod PhD Training School Malaria Indicator Survey in Papua New Guinea Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS) provide essential data on malaria infection prevalence and coverage with malaria interventions in the community [...] and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination . Groups Analytics and Intervention Modelling Malaria Epidemiology and Control Project Highlights TEMT: Towards Eliminating Malaria in Tanzania Since 2002 [...] of SMC were simulated using OpenMalaria. Read more about Analytics...