Sub-national stratification of malaria risk in mainland Tanzania: a simplified assembly of survey and routine data (Publications)
Recent malaria control efforts in mainland Tanzania have led to progressive changes in the prevalence of malaria infection in children, from 18.1% (2008) to 7.3% (2017). As the landscape of malaria transmission [...] incidence and fever test positivity rate for the period 2016-2017 as well as confirmed malaria incidence and malaria positivity in pregnant women for the period 2015-2017 were obtained from routine district [...] survey malaria information was developed. This pragmatic approach can...
Need for Innovation to End Malaria (News)
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in Malaria MalERA Refresh, which updates the first Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) of 2011, is the result of a two-year consultative process involving more than 180 scientists, malaria programme [...] in the Fight against Malaria Has Stalled MalERA Refresh responds to challenges highlighted in the World Malaria Report 2017 published yesterday by WHO: While the number of malaria cases decreased significantly [...] To accelerate the fight against malaria and address current...
A milestone in the fight against malaria (News)
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that can infect the malaria mosquito and thus ensure that the parasite is transmitted to other people. Mystery solved Scientists have been speculating for years about how the malaria parasite regulates [...] Malaria parasites are both dangerous and versatile. On entering the human bloodstream, they multiply exponentially. The blood stages of the infection cause all the complications associated with this d [...] journal Cell on 9 November 2017. “For the first time ever, we have been able to...
The Achilles Heel of Plasmodia - Advances in Vaccine Development against Malaria (News)
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To date, there is no highly effective vaccination against malaria available. In collaboration with Joerg Benz and Markus Rudolph from the Roche Structural Biologie Unit, the Swiss TPH research group headed [...] Hidden Antigens The variability of antigens is a major problem in the development of vaccines against malaria. Most plasmodial surface proteins differ greatly among the various Plasmodia strains. For this reason [...] on the surface of virus-like particles (virosomes). In a clinical...
Malaria Trends in DRC (News)
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country, the study observed a sharp increase of confirmed malaria cases after the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests which detect evidence of malaria parasites in human blood. Population coverage across [...] distribution of long-lasting insecticide treated bed nets. Presumptive malaria cases that were treated could be reduced but malaria positivity rate revealed no declining tendency. Swiss TPH therefore recommends [...] continuing to support key interventions especially in provinces with...
New chemical compound shows promising results against drug-resistant malaria parasites (News)
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Treating malaria is a global challenge. Resistance against artemisinin-based combination therapies has recently been detected in Southeast Asia, threatening the impact of standard therapies on malaria. Developing [...] chemical class of antimalarials has been registered in the last 20 years. About Malaria Every 30 seconds, a child dies of malaria. This disease costs Africa 12 billion dollars (US) a year in health-care costs [...] active against P. falciparum and P. vivax – the parasites...
Swiss TPH Designated WHO Collaborating Centre for its Expertise in Malaria (News)
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Alonso, Director of the WHO Global Malaria Programme. “The institutes’ long-term expertise in malaria research, control and elimination will be highly valuable in supporting WHO’s capacity to implement [...] spraying that are aimed at preventing malaria to support the development of updated WHO policy guidance. The agreement also acknowledges Swiss TPH’s efforts to advance malaria control and elimination through [...] An Expert Hub for Malaria Following years of fruitful collaboration, the Swiss...
