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33 years later and still waiting...
It was 1988 when the Colombian Prof. Manuel E. Patarroyo and his team published groundbreaking research about the experimental synthetic malaria vaccine SPf66 in Nature. I remember that when I lived in Ifakara, Tanzania, eight years later an SPf66 trial was being conducted in Kilombero District. All in all SPf66 had 10 trials in Africa, Asia, and South America. Unfortunately, the results showed that this vaccine was not effective. Now, 33 years later, we are still waiting for an effective and affordable malaria vaccin. Why is it taking so long? Several COVID-19 vaccines have been developed and tested within 1 year! Damaris Matoke-Muhia from the Kenya Medical Research Institute describes very aptly in her SciDev.net article below Learning from COVID-19 to accelerate malaria vaccines development that: "This unprecedented speed is a great testament to the power of what science can achieve when researchers have resources and political will on their side." Very true. But in the meantime I would say let's join efforts and move on with the resources that we have. We should not sit and wait for 33 more years when every day counts.
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Director Dutch Malaria Foundation
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A major gap in the malaria response landscape is the absence of a forum where representatives of the entire malaria world can meet. Our key aim for the inaugural World Congress on Malaria is to unify and energise the broader malaria community around a common sense of purpose, including one that links malaria with the wider global health and human development goals of Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals. Together we can learn from each other, plan for the implementation of cross sector strategies and galvanise the effort for the eradication of malaria.
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WHO has just published its toolkit for Integrated Vector Management in sub-Saharan Africa. It is attached here for your perusal (and use!).
This toolkit for integrated vector management (IVM) is designed to help national and regional programme managers coordinate across sectors to design and run large IVM programmes. It is an extension of earlier guidance and teaching material provided by WHO: Handbook for integrated vector management , Monitoring and evaluation indicators for integrated vector management , Guidance on policy-making for integrated vector management and Core structure for training curricula on integrated vector management.
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