How Gold Mining Affects the Spread of Malaria (News)
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using black market medicines further increase the risk of malaria transmission. “The international gold price has been the best predictor of malaria rates in Guyana,” said Pablo De Salazar from Swiss TPH [...] higher risk of malaria transmission. A recently published case study by Swiss TPH and partners analysed how Brazil’s 2023 crackdown on illegal gold mining in Yanomami lands triggered a malaria outbreak in [...] the rise in malaria cases in Guyana, demonstrating how the displacement of...
New Study Links Climate Change to Malaria Increase in Northern Kenya (News)
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changes such as urbanization and malaria control interventions, are affecting the spread of malaria in Kenya. “By employing advanced geostatistical models based on national malaria surveys conducted between 2015 [...] to combat malaria amidst changing environmental conditions.” Malaria trends and climatic factors The study found that between 2015 and 2020, Kenya saw a promising decline in overall malaria prevalence [...] Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination and a member of...
New Discovery Unravels Malaria Invasion Mechanism (News)
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million cases of malaria and 608,000 deaths in 2022, malaria has remained an intractable global health threat. The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is the leading cause of severe malaria and is responsible [...] the largest portion of malaria deaths. All clinical symptoms of malaria are caused by the multiplication of malaria parasites in the red blood cells. Key component found for malaria invasion P. falciparum [...] the species-specific targeting of malaria parasites. In this study, we...
The effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on malaria mortality at different spatial scales in western Kenya, 2008-2019 (Publications)
relatively small size of the HDSS, there was spatial variation in malaria mortality that peaked every May-June. The rapid decline in malaria mortality was associated with bed nets, and finer spatial scale [...] BACKGROUND: Malaria mortality is influenced by several factors including climatic and environmental factors, interventions, socioeconomic status (SES) and access to health systems. Here, we investigated [...] ed the joint effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on under-five malaria...
Methodological framework for assessing malaria risk associated with climate change in Côte d'Ivoire (Publications)
Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity among children under five years of age and pregnant women in Côte d'Ivoire. We assessed the geographical distribution of its risk in all climatic zones of the [...] main driving components affecting the risk: Hazard, exposure and vulnerability. Considering the malaria impact chain, various variables were identified for each of the risk factors and for each variable [...] or equatorial (tropical transition regime) in the North and the mountainous...
A review of selective indoor residual spraying for malaria control (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is one of the most effective malaria control tools. However, its application has become limited to specific contexts due to the increased costs of IRS products [...] tive spray targeted to particular areas/surfaces of dwellings-has been proposed to maintain the malaria control and resistance-management benefits of IRS while decreasing the costs of the intervention [...] mosquitoes and (2) studies that evaluated the impact of selective spraying on...
Slow clearance of histidine-rich protein-2 in Gabonese with uncomplicated malaria (Publications)
Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), which detect Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)-specific histidine-rich protein-2 (HRP2), have increasing importance for the diagnosis and control of malaria, especially [...] RDT-based assessment following a malaria treatment for weeks. A better understanding of the HRP2 clearance dynamics is critical for guiding the diagnosis of malaria when relying on RDTs. IMPORTANCE: Detecting [...] determine the long-term kinetic of HRP2-levels in peripheral blood after...
