Background: Malaria is a major public health problem globally and resistance to most widely used drugs impedes its control. Artemisinin resistance has emerged and spread in the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS), followed by artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs)’ treatment failure, due to both…

Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire are among the ten countries with the highest malaria burden in the world. Transmission in Burkina Faso and northern Côte d’Ivoire is highly seasonal and intense. In general, malaria infections peak during the wet season and decrease in the dry season. The parasite…

This is a joint research project between Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH, Switzerland) and Ifakara Health Institute (IHI, Tanzania). Malaria elimination is threatened by resistance to current insecticides and antimalarials. Developing novel technologies that target malaria…

Malaria cases and incidence have considerably reduced in Rwanda in the last 5 years. Further decreasing and ultimately reducing transmissions to zero in our communities including high-risk or vulnerable populations is essential to achieving and sustaining malaria elimination. Today, most of malaria…

Malaria affects millions of people globally, and the disease remains one of the major public health problems occurring in most parts of the world, causing thousands of deaths each year, especially among vulnerable persons in rural settings with poor health systems. Even though the burden has…