Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Invest, Innovate, Implement (News)
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cases of malaria worldwide and 600,000 deaths. Most tragically, most of these deaths were children under the age of five. This year’s World Malaria Day, under the motto “Time to Deliver Zero Malaria: Investment [...] development and the importance of improving health systems. World Malaria Day 2023 at Swiss TPH Swiss TPH actively contributes to global malaria control and elimination by developing new drugs and interventions [...] President of the Swiss Malaria Group. Lengeler emphasised that,...
R. Geigy Award 2022 Goes to Three Researchers for Work on Malaria and Tuberculosis Control in Africa (News)
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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...
New Findings about Diagnostic Tools for Malaria Elimination (News)
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transmit the malaria parasite without showing any symptoms. To ultimately eliminate malaria, it is important that all asymptomatic malaria carriers are detected and treated to stop the transmission of the disease [...] Swiss TPH. Guiding future malaria interventions These findings have implications for future malaria interventions in elimination settings. "For effective interventions aimed at malaria elimination, all potential [...] Malaria often causes symptoms such as fever, chills, and...
New Modelling Project Launched to Support National Malaria Control Programmes (News)
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application of malaria models, with a focus on the OpenMalaria modelling platform. OpenMalaria is a decision-making tool that was by developed by Swiss TPH to simulate dynamics of malaria transmission and [...] Great achievements have been made in the fight against malaria, saving more than eight million lives and preventing over one-and-a-half billion malaria cases. However, one billion people still live at risk [...] Foundation, to support National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) in their...
Only One Third of Children Receive Appropriate Malaria Care (News)
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in nine sub-Saharan countries. Major gaps in malaria care in children According to the clinical guidelines, all children with malaria should receive a malaria blood test as well as an appropriate antimalarial [...] (WHO) has called for a renewed focus on malaria ( World Malaria Report 2019 ), including improved and better-enforced guidelines for the clinical management of the disease. To gain more insights regarding [...] at a health facility for treatment. Although 80% of children diagnosed...
Improved Bed Nets for Malaria Control in Tanzania (News)
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more sustainable malaria interventions, both physically and economically. "More than 2 billion ITNs have been procured for public health. They are an incredibly important aspect of malaria control that have [...] Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are the most widely adopted preventive measure against malaria. ITNs work by both preventing bites and killing mosquitoes that are searching for humans at night. ITNs [...] ITNs, and in particular long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), represent a...
The underlying reasons for very high levels of bed net use, and higher malaria infection prevalence among bed net users than non-users in the... (Publications)
even suppress entire populations of malaria vectors that feed predominantly upon humans. Nevertheless, an epidemiological study in 2012 demonstrated higher malaria prevalence among bed net users than non-users [...] against malaria. Houses with well-screened windows, with doors that shut properly, and that use insecticidal sprays against mosquitoes, were said not to use bed nets, while frequent attacks from malaria was [...] compromise its effectiveness and supposedly increase of malaria...
Multiple insecticide resistance in <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> from Tanzania: a major concern for malaria vector control (Publications)
development of insecticide resistance in the major malaria vectors. This study was carried out to monitor the susceptibility status of major malaria vectors to insecticides used for IRS and LLINs in mainland [...] BACKGROUND: Malaria vector control in Tanzania is based on use of long-lasting insecticide treated nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), which both rely on the use of chemical insecticides. [...] An. gambiae sensu stricto (s.s.) Kisumu strain. RESULTS: Anopheles arabiensis...
Longitudinal estimation of <em>Plasmodium falciparum </em>prevalence in relation to malaria prevention measures in six sub-Saharan African countries (Publications)
(PfPR) is a widely used metric for assessing malaria transmission intensity. This study was carried out concurrently with the RTS,S/AS01 candidate malaria vaccine Phase III trial and estimated PfPR over [...] 3 sites. Surveys were usually performed during the peak malaria parasite transmission season, in one home visit, when medical history and malaria risk factors/prevention measures were collected, and a blood [...] 0.52, 0.68, 0.41) and bed net use in 2 surveys (ORs: 0.63, 0.68, 1.03, 1.78)...
