Kelly Chibale: Learning to Fail Your Way to Success (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/kelly-chibale-learning-to-fail-your-way-to-success
with Kelly and his team and his contributions for malaria and schistosomiasis drug discovery and development have been seminal.” New Drugs against Malaria The success of the H3D was not long in coming. In [...] University of Cape Town. He dedicated himself to the discovery and development of new drugs against malaria and other infectious diseases of poverty. This career move was not based on an idealistic sentiment [...] international partnerships. Key partners include the Bill & Melinda Gates...
Vaccination: A Cornerstone of Global Health (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/impact-stories/vaccination-a-cornerstone-of-global-health
Hotez Selected contributions of Swiss TPH’s research on malaria vaccine development Abdulla et al. Safety and immunogenicity of RTS,S/AS02D malaria vaccine in infants. N Engl J Med. 2008;359(24):2533-44 [...] against Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children in southern Tanzania. Lancet. 1994;344(8931):1175-81. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(94)90505-3. Day et al. The essential malaria protein PfCyRPA targets glycans [...] interventions for malaria prevention and treatment. Commun Med (Lond)....
Technical Support and Capacity Building (Page)
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Systems Malaria Elimination Project Highlights Collaboration with Local Policy Makers to Strengthen Malaria Control Building Capacity for Malaria Control in the Democratic Republic of Congo The Malaria Control [...] Building for Malaria Capacity building is crucial to ensure the sustainable success of malaria prevention and the control of the disease. We provide technical support to National Malaria Control Programmes [...] tuberculosis and malaria. As the Global Fund with its head office in...
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...
Human unconventional T cells in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection (Publications)
field of malaria immunology. Significant advances in our basic understanding of unconventional T cell biology in rodent malaria models have been made, however, their roles in humans during malaria are less [...] tissues, and long-lasting expansions and functional alterations were observed upon malaria infection in malaria naïve and malaria pre-exposed volunteers. Here, we review the current understanding of involvement [...] Malaria is an old scourge of humankind and has a large negative impact...
Human unconventional T cells in <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> infection (Publications)
field of malaria immunology. Significant advances in our basic understanding of unconventional T cell biology in rodent malaria models have been made, however, their roles in humans during malaria are less [...] tissues, and long-lasting expansions and functional alterations were observed upon malaria infection in malaria naïve and malaria pre-exposed volunteers. Here, we review the current understanding of involvement [...] Malaria is an old scourge of humankind and has a large negative impact...
Analytics and Intervention Modelling (Page)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/about/eph/health-interventions/analytics-and-intervention-modelling
Foundation President's Malaria Initiative Malaria Consortium Links & Downloads openMalaria r-openMalariaUtilities Emilie Pothin: "Modeling the impact of community health workers on malaria elimination" MOSASWA [...] more OpenMalaria Workflow and OpenMalariaUtilities R Packages The work of the Analytics and Intervention Modelling Group is based on OpenMalaria : an open-source C++ program for simulating malaria epidemiology [...] use OpenMalaria for applied country-specific scenario simulations....
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...
A good night's sleep and the habit of net use: perceptions of risk and reasons for bed net use in Bukoba and Zanzibar (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Intensive malaria control interventions in the United Republic of Tanzania have contributed to reductions in malaria prevalence. Given that malaria control remains reliant upon continued use [...] perceived risk of malaria had decreased among the respondents, and malaria control interventions were credited for the decline. Participants cited reductions in both the severity of malaria and in their perceived [...] perceived susceptibility to malaria. However, malaria was still...