Corine Karema (People)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/staff/profile/people/corine-karema
of malaria control strategies, policies and research, which has guided most of the evidence-based malaria control interventions in Rwanda. She has designed and led the impact evaluation of malaria control [...] former Director of the Rwanda National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) where she served in this role for 10 years. From 2011 to May 2016, she was also the head of Malaria & Other Parasitic Diseases (Neglected [...] Corine was also the Co–chair of the East African Roll Back Malaria...
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...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Antigens released at schizont burst stimulate <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em>-specific CD4+ T cells from non-exposed donors: potential for... (Publications)
individuals can be stimulated by malaria parasites. Here, we show that nine from 11 blood samples, naturally infected with malaria parasites, could stimulate proliferation of a malaria-specific T cell clone derived [...] the T cell response of naive donors to malaria parasites, processing of parasite antigens is blocked by chloroquine and monensin, and activation of 36 of 41 malaria-specific clones tested was restricted [...] activation of cross-reactive memory T cells by malaria parasites...
Effects of age, gender and soil-transmitted helminth infection on prevalence of <em>Plasmodium </em>infection among population living in Bata... (Publications)
bed nets. Malaria infections were detected in 34.8% of the participants, while 50% of malaria infections were reported in children aged 10-17 years. Females had a lower prevalence of malaria (28.8%) compared [...] health impact of STH and malaria co-infection is inconclusive. The current study aimed to report the malaria and STH infection epidemiology in the continental region of Equatorial Guinea. METHODS: We performed [...] infected with T. trichiura had malaria parasites compared with those...
Effects of age, gender and soil-transmitted helminth infection on prevalence of <em>Plasmodium </em>infection among population living in Bata... (Publications)
bed nets. Malaria infections were detected in 34.8% of the participants, while 50% of malaria infections were reported in children aged 10-17 years. Females had a lower prevalence of malaria (28.8%) compared [...] health impact of STH and malaria co-infection is inconclusive. The current study aimed to report the malaria and STH infection epidemiology in the continental region of Equatorial Guinea. METHODS: We performed [...] infected with T. trichiura had malaria parasites compared with those...
Barbara Matthys (People)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/staff/profile/people/barbara-matthys
to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in several African countries. She has technically assisted National Malaria Programs in Central Asia in strategic reviews of malaria elimination activities. Barbara [...] support to a DFID funded malaria control project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Barbara Matthys has carried out Data Quality Audits and impact assessments of malaria grants for the Global Fund [...] Institute. She has solid experience in programmatic performance and monitoring...
Jeanne Lemant (People)
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especially worked with the Benin National Malaria Control Programme to identify how to extend seasonal malaria chemoprevention to avert the most severe malaria cases. I hold a MSc in Applied Mathematics [...] support National Malaria Control Programme in taking decisions based on all available evidence. I am working on estimating and integrating vector bionomics and biting behaviours into malaria transmission models
Christian Lengeler (People)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/staff/profile/people/christian-lengeler
of the National Malaria Control Programme in DR Congo and in Tanzania. Professor Lengeler’s group is currently working on understanding and improving access to malaria treatment in malaria-endemic countries [...] control of tropical diseases, with a strong focus on malaria. He has been involved in the development of insecticide treated nets (ITN) as a malaria control tool, and was responsible for pioneering many [...] Professional activities at Swiss TPH Professor Christian Lengeler leads the Ma...