Malaria | Swiss TPH (Page)
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Accelerating the Fight against Malaria - World Malaria Day 2024 New Malaria Medicines Accept Show More Key Facts About Malaria Malaria is a Major Disease Burden Malaria is a disease caused by parasites [...] Training for Malaria Control and Elimination since 2017. Our focus areas Antimalarial Drug Development Basic Malaria Research Diagnosis and Treatment Malaria Elimination Malaria Host Interactions Malaria Intervention [...] Medicines for Malaria Venture Malaria Consortium RBM Partnership to...
Malaria Intervention Studies (Page)
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levels. Malaria Elimination Surveillance and Health Systems Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) Children with severe malaria need immediate [...] (RADZEC) In countries approaching malaria elimination, individual case-based surveillance and targeted response to individual malaria cases becomes a cornerstone of malaria control and elimination efforts [...] Reactive Case Detection implemented by the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination...
Basic Malaria Research (Page)
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Basic Malaria Research We acquire new functional and mechanistic insight into processes linked to the essential biology of malaria blood stage parasites. These parasite forms are responsible for all m [...] signatures associated with native and adaptive anti-malarial immunity in vivo . Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Project Highlights Scanning electron micrographs of an erythrocyte and [...] Commitment and Early Differentiation of Malaria Transmission Stages The project...
Malaria Vaccines (Page)
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developing resistance to existing malaria drugs, and mosquitoes are developing resistance to insecticides. Malaria vaccines are potential new tools in combating malaria by targeting several different stages [...] decision making boards. Malaria Basic Malaria Research Antimalarial Drug Development Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Malaria Vaccines Swiss TPH has [...] Malaria Vaccines Recently, the malaria burden was successfully reduced as a...
Malaria Elimination (Page)
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Malaria Elimination The malaria map is shrinking. In high burden areas malaria parasite prevalence has been reduced dramatically. Around 100 countries are now free from malaria. According to WHO estimates [...] strategies. Malaria Antimalarial Drug Development Malaria Vaccines Mosquito Biology and Control Project Highlights Malaria Diagnosis in Papua New Guinea Controlling and Eliminating Malaria in Southeast [...] estimates, malaria incidence (the rate of new malaria cases) fell by 37% between...
CARAMAL | Swiss TPH Malaria Projects (Page)
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CARAMAL - Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria Many malaria deaths occur in places where people have poor access to preventive and curative health services. Prompt access to quality care is [...] severe childhood diseases, among which severe malaria is particularly frequent in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa. Where parenteral treatment of severe malaria is not available, for example at the level [...] of care for severe malaria can be provided. Since 2018, two RAS products have...
<em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> cerebral malaria complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene: case report... (Publications)
The case of a 56-year-old female tourist who survived cerebral Plasmodium falciparum malaria with disseminated intravascular coagulation and symmetrical peripheral gangrene, ultimately requiring amputation [...] gangrene has been described rarely in Asian, African, and American patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and disseminated intravascular coagulation, no such case has been reported in travelers returning
Comparative field evaluation of the Mbita trap, the Centers for Disease Control light trap, and the human landing catch for sampling of malaria... (Publications)
to the sampling method used. It is concluded that the Mbita trap is a promising tool for sampling malaria vector populations since its catch can be readily converted into equivalent human biting catch, it [...] exposure-free manner. Such intensive sampling capability will allow cost-effective surveillance of malaria transmission at much finer spatial and temporal resolution than has been previously possible