Recommendations for malaria prevention in moderate to low risk areas: travellers' choice and risk perception (Publications)
behaviour. CONCLUSIONS: When travelling to moderate- to low-risk malaria areas, 85% of interviewees chose not to take chemoprophylaxis as malaria prevention, although most guidelines recommend it. They had [...] BACKGROUND: The considerable malaria decline in several countries challenges the strategy of chemoprophylaxis for travellers visiting moderate- to low-risk areas. An international consensus on the best [...] to include travellers' opinions in the decision process. The preference of...
Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality (Publications)
deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and [...] which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and opportunities, and explain how multi-factorial and integrated processes could eventually make malaria eradication
Marcel Tanner – Malaria jetzt ausrotten! [Radio Broadcast] (Publications)
Immer noch sterben jährlich 600'000 Menschen an Malaria. In den letzten Jahren sind aber die Fortschritte im Kampf gegen die Krankheit enorm. «Wir können die Krankheit ausrotten», sagt Marcel Tanner, Präsident