A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
Analytics and Intervention Modelling (Page)
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Foundation President's Malaria Initiative Malaria Consortium Links & Downloads openMalaria r-openMalariaUtilities Emilie Pothin: "Modeling the impact of community health workers on malaria elimination" MOSASWA [...] more OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages The work of the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group is based on OpenMalaria : an open-source C++ program for simulating malaria epidemiology [...] use OpenMalaria for applied country-specific scenario simulations....
Corine Karema (People)
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of malaria control strategies, policies and research, which has guided most of the evidence-based malaria control interventions in Rwanda. She has designed and led the impact evaluation of malaria control [...] former Director of the Rwanda National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) where she served in this role for 10 years. From 2011 to May 2016, she was also the head of Malaria & Other Parasitic Diseases (Neglected [...] Corine was also the Co–chair of the East African Roll Back Malaria...
MMC elimination costing (Projects)
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of malaria elimination interventions. This includes surveillance and a range of targeted and focal malaria elimination interventions when added incrementally to current levels of routine malaria control [...] model developed based on data collected by current malaria elimination trials, (2) estimates of costs, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of malaria elimination interventions and strategies for a number [...] number of policy relevant scenarios simulated with a simulation model of malar...
50 years of Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (News)
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and Epidemiology unit at Swiss TPH. Worrying increase of malaria in Papua New Guinea PNG is at a key stage of controlling and eliminating malaria, having achieved large reductions in prevalence throughout [...] University of Basel. Swiss TPH and PNGIMR are supporting the national malaria programme and are involved in a new round of nationwide malaria evaluation from 2018 to 2020. Both parties are also involved in field [...] field studies which investigate reasons for on-going residual...
Surveillance and Health Systems (Page)
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Surveillance and Health Systems for Malaria Recording when and where malaria occurs is essential for assessing disease trends and planning interventions. Where malaria is epidemic, a system that combines [...] health systems around the world. Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Elimination Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Improving Access to Malaria Care and Services for Children Under [...] Health supports Cameroon's National Malaria Control Programme in achieving...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Antimalarial Drug Development (Page)
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endemic countries of tropical Africa. Malaria Basic Malaria Research Malaria Vaccines Project Highlights Drug Discovery for Malaria The NGBS programme in malaria drug discovery is a collaboration between [...] part of the Medicines for Malaria Venture portfolio. Link to Project Shaping Next-Generation Interventions for Malaria Prevention Despite progress to reduce malaria burden, malaria parasites are becoming [...] Treating malaria is a global challenge. Resistance against artemisinin-based...
