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...
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...
Only One Third of Children Receive Appropriate Malaria Care (News)
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in nine sub-Saharan countries. Major gaps in malaria care in children According to the clinical guidelines, all children with malaria should receive a malaria blood test as well as an appropriate antimalarial [...] (WHO) has called for a renewed focus on malaria ( World Malaria Report 2019 ), including improved and better-enforced guidelines for the clinical management of the disease. To gain more insights regarding [...] at a health facility for treatment. Although 80% of children diagnosed...
Improved Bed Nets for Malaria Control in Tanzania (News)
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more sustainable malaria interventions, both physically and economically. "More than 2 billion ITNs have been procured for public health. They are an incredibly important aspect of malaria control that have [...] Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) are the most widely adopted preventive measure against malaria. ITNs work by both preventing bites and killing mosquitoes that are searching for humans at night. ITNs [...] ITNs, and in particular long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), represent a...
New Modelling Project Launched to Support National Malaria Control Programmes (News)
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application of malaria models, with a focus on the OpenMalaria modelling platform. OpenMalaria is a decision-making tool that was by developed by Swiss TPH to simulate dynamics of malaria transmission and [...] Great achievements have been made in the fight against malaria, saving more than eight million lives and preventing over one-and-a-half billion malaria cases. However, one billion people still live at risk [...] Foundation, to support National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs) in their...
Swiss TPH Re-designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Expertise in Malaria (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/who-collaborating-centre-for-expertise-in-malaria
world free from malaria." An expert hub for malaria Within the Collaborating Centre, Swiss TPH will improve modelling methodologies that contribute towards malaria prevention and advance malaria control and [...] WHO Global Malaria Programme. "The institute's long-term expertise in malaria research, control and elimination will be highly valuable in supporting the WHO to implement its work on malaria prevention [...] Monitoring and Training for Malaria Control and Elimination The...
Shaping the Next-generation of Interventions for Malaria Prevention (News)
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substantially reducing the number of malaria cases since 2000, malaria remains a major public health concern. In 2019, there were an estimated 229 million cases of malaria worldwide according to the World [...] (WHO). Worryingly, in some countries, malaria is even on the rise. Children under five are particularly vulnerable. In 2019, they accounted for 67% (274,000) of all malaria deaths worldwide. Pregnant women [...] for malaria prevention. The project aims to fill the gaps that still remain...
First Malaria Vaccine Recommended for Children by the WHO (News)
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disease,” said Christian Lengeler, a malaria epidemiologist at Swiss TPH and President of the Swiss Malaria Group. “With a moderate efficacy of 30% of severe malaria cases, the new vaccine still makes a [...] of the five malaria pathogens and the most common in Africa. Swiss TPH has played a leading role in this day coming to fruition thanks to decades of research and development of new malaria vaccines. R [...] RTS,S, produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), belongs to a first generation of malaria...
R. Geigy Award 2022 Goes to Three Researchers for Work on Malaria and Tuberculosis Control in Africa (News)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/news/news-detail-1/news/r-geigy-award-2022-goes-to-three-researchers-for-work-on-malaria-and-tuberculosis-control-in-africa
including cell cultures of malaria parasites, which allows them to test the effect of new vaccines or drugs on malaria transmission. "If we stick to the goal of eliminating malaria, we also need new interventions [...] research platform opens up new perspectives in the fight against malaria In recent decades, there has been great progress in the fight against malaria in Africa. However, many people in endemic areas are still [...] their achievements in the field of setting up a research...
