Closing the malaria prevention gap: measuring and characterizing human behavioral drivers of persistent malaria transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa (Publications)
two-thirds of the reduction in malaria burden over the past two decades. However, progress has begun to stall in recent years highlighting the importance of enhanced malaria prevention efforts. The aim of [...] Malaria kills a person nearly every minute, most often a child under the age of five. While endemic in many parts of the world, a disproportionate burden of cases and deaths are borne by people living [...] living in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is transmitted by the female Anopheles...
The effect of community-driven larval source management and house improvement on malaria transmission when added to the standard malaria control... (Publications)
sufficient for malaria elimination. The effects of community-based house improvement (HI) and larval source management (LSM) as supplementary interventions to the Malawi National Malaria Control Programme [...] tion indicated a promising reduction in malaria transmission for the area, but also limited the usefulness of this outcome for measuring differences in malaria transmission among the trial arms. Trial [...] bed net use, neither community-based HI, LSM, nor HI + LSM contributed to further...
PATH Malaria Vaccine Modelling (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/path-malaria-vaccine-modelling
RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) is the world’s first malaria vaccine shown to provide partial protection against malaria in young children. In October 2021, WHO recommended widespread use of RTS,S among children in [...] in regions with moderate to high P. falciparum malaria transmission. This recommendation is based on a Phase 3 trial completed in Africa in 2015 and the implementation programme in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi [...] we provided modelling evidence to support this recommendation and continued to...
Science of Eradication: Malaria (Courses)
Eradication: Malaria Core Course is an intensive weeklong foundational leadership development course that provides participants with a multidisciplinary perspective on approaches to malaria elimination
Experience capitalisation of Biovision’s environmental-friendly Malaria and African animal trypanosomiasis control projects from 2005-2020 for greater... (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/experience-capitalisation-of-biovisions-environmental-friendly-malaria-and-african-animal-trypanosomiasis-control-projects-from-2005-2020-for-greater-impact
be an assessment of Biovision’s engagement in Malaria and AAT control. Two major outputs shall be developed based on this review: a) an overview of Malaria and tsetse fly control activities supported through [...] of vector-borne human, animal and plant diseases. The current mandate focuses on programmes for Malaria and AAT control with a flagship character that had been implemented by Biovision and their strong [...] These will address the following four key topics: a) uptake, ownership and...
Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey Quality Assurance Services (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/malawi-malaria-indicator-survey-quality-assurance-services
Malaria indicator surveys are an important source of data on disease burden (parasite prevalence, fever prevalence, etc), and coverage of malaria prevention and case management interventions, particularly [...] decisions. The objective of this mandate of Global Fund was to assess the extent to which the Malawi malaria indicator survey 2021 activities were planned, coordinated, and executed according to the standard
Country modelling to support National Malaria Control Programs - High Burden to High Impact (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/country-modelling-to-support-national-malaria-control-programs-high-burden-to-high-impact
the Roll Back Malaria partnership (RBM), public health modelers have been invited by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (“the Global Fund”) to support the national malaria programs on [...] of their data basis, current/past malaria trends in the country, and a simulation of the impact of malaria-related interventions. Our work is based on the OpenMalaria modelling platform developed by the [...] elaboration of country malaria strategic plans and provide insight to the coming...
Exploring the mechanisms of heritable gene silencing and singular gene choice to understand antigenic variation in malaria parasites (Projects)
https://www.swisstph.ch/fr/projects/project-detail/project/exploring-the-mechanisms-of-heritable-gene-silencing-and-singular-gene-choice-to-understand-antigenic-variation-in-malaria-parasites
epigenetic control mechanisms involved in the production of malaria transmission stages and in antigenic variation and immune evasion of malaria parasites. To achieve this we combine molecular and cell biology