Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems (Publications)
that are relevant to the scaling up of continuous delivery of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) for malaria prevention. However, specific contextual factors of relevance to ITN delivery have led implementation
Pharmacotherapy, vaccines and malaria advice for HIV-infected travellers (Publications)
acquired during travel may be more frequent or severe. Challenges include the best options for malaria chemoprophylaxis, standby treatment and medical follow-up of the increasing number of HIV-infected
Synthetic ozonide drug candidate OZ439 offers new hope for a single-dose cure of uncomplicated malaria (Publications)
it was shown to be safe at doses up to 1,600 mg and is currently undergoing Phase IIa trials in malaria patients. Herein, we describe the discovery of OZ439 and the exceptional antimalarial and pharmacokinetic
A periodically-forced mathematical model for the seasonal dynamics of malaria in mosquitoes (Publications)
orbits of field-measurable quantities that measure malaria transmission. We integrate this model with an individual-based stochastic simulation model for malaria in humans to compare the effects of insectic [...] interventions reduce transmission and prevalence, they can lead to increased clinical malaria; and all three malaria indicators return to preintervention levels within 3 years after the interventions are [...] We describe and analyze a periodically-forced difference equation model for m...
Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results [...] stable endemic Plasmodium falciparum malaria. We use verbal autopsies (VAs) to estimate the proportion of deaths by age group due to malaria, and thus calculate malaria-specific mortality rates for each site [...] attributed to malaria. The overall age patterns of malaria mortality were...
Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
of the age- and season- dependence of malaria mortality is an important prerequisite for epidemiologic models of malaria immunity. However, most studies of malaria mortality have aggregated their results [...] stable endemic Plasmodium falciparum malaria. We use verbal autopsies (VAs) to estimate the proportion of deaths by age group due to malaria, and thus calculate malaria-specific mortality rates for each site [...] attributed to malaria. The overall age patterns of malaria mortality were...
Multi-scale mathematical modelling of parasite, drug and vaccine interactions: optimising public health and disease elimination strategies (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/en/projects/project-detail/project/multi-scale-mathematical-modelling-of-parasite-drug-and-vaccine-interactions-optimising-public-health-and-disease-elimination-strategies
are best able to reduce and halt malaria transmission. Mathematical modelling can help understand malaria dynamics and interactions between malaria tools and the malaria parasite, human and mosquito hosts [...] been made over the last decades in controlling malaria. From 2000 to 2015 scale-up of control and curative interventions enabled a 60% reduction in malaria death rates and a 40% reduction in rate of clinical [...] disease. Despite these gains, we face significant challenges if we are to...