Thanks to a collaboration with ASTMH, Image Audiovisuals and session presenters, MESA brings you more than 50 presentations from the 66th ASTMH Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore on November 5 - 9, 2017. The sessions are freely available in the Knowledge Hub, an online library of resources related to malaria elimination and eradication.
A documentary about the first 10 years of the work on Bioko has been nominated for an award in a competition run by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.
MalariaWorld has been chosen as the communications partner for the 1st Malaria World Congress that will take place in Melbourne, Australia from 1-5 July 2018.
New deadlines for oral and poster submission!
The Congress is receiving four types of submissions for program consideration. Abstracts from all accepted presentations will be made available online. The submission portal is in conjunction with registration, however you do not need to register in order to submit a contribution.
Visit the Malaria World Congress website to register, submit your abstract and for more information: www.malariaworldcongress.org.
Dear there, we're excited to announce that the inaugural Malaria World Congress will be staged in Melbourne, Australia from July 1-5, 2018 and we now offer opportunities for Sponsorship, Exhibition, Advertising and Promotion.
Visit the Malaria World Congress website to register, submit your abstract and for more information: www.malariaworldcongress.org.
The Congress program is open for four types of submissions, submit your work for consideration before the deadline closes on 2nd February 2018.
Registrations are now open, take advantage of the discounted earlybird registration rates before they expire on 29th March 2018!
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.
It is the season for self reflection over results of the past year and prepare for strategy of that to come. We, at the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), are also looking ahead and now invite innovative solution partners to our Request for Proposal (RFP).
Azardirachta indica, Neem, is considered as the miracle tree against many diseases in many countries. One of the specific molecules of this plant is the limonoid azadirachtin, with a concentration of 0.1g/100 g in the leaves and 0.9 g/100 in the kernels.
It is with great sadness that MalariaWorld announces the death of Professor Mike Service. Professor Service passed away aged 84.
12 December 2017
Although I just did a Critique on the 2017 WHO Malaria Report, it is not the Report that needs to be fixed, it is the failing WHO Strategy.
The 2017 WHO report on the status of malaria at the end of 2016 is a mixture of good news and bad news, with the bad news predominating. Although Dr. Tedros, the Director General of WHO and Prof. Alonso, the Director of the Global Malaria Program are to be commended for their frank presentation of the negative trends, they need to identify the reasons for these trends if we are to make the changes needed to reverse them.
Thus I will attempt herein to analyze some of the reasons for these negative trends, and suggest changes needed if we are to overcome them.
The World Malaria Report 2017 draws on data from 91 countries and areas with ongoing malaria transmission.
Issued: Tuesday 28 November 2017, London UK; Geneva, Switzerland
Regulatory milestone affirms GSK's strong commitment and scientific capabilities to fighting infectious diseases
The new research agenda for malaria elimination and global eradication stresses the need for innovation and integrated approaches
malERA Refresh is the result of a consultative process with over 180 experts and seeks to accelerate progress to a world free from malaria
More than 180 scientists, malaria programme managers and policy makers from around the world have come together through a consultative process to update the research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication, first produced in 2011. The outcome is a series of seven ‘malERA Refresh’ (malaria eradication research agenda) papers that have undergone expert peer review and will soon be published i
Today 21 September 2017, Administrator Mark Green announced that the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), led by USAID and implemented together with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will launch new country programs in Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Niger, and Sierra Leone, and expand its existing program in Burkina Faso.
With the addition of five new focus countries in West and Central Africa, PMI will have programs in 24 countries in sub-Saharan Africa,
Already in 1925 burns were treated with tannins.
As it often happened in the past century the use of this natural product in the treatment of wounds was abandoned in the mid-forties due to the availability of topical antibacterial agents. It has regained interest. A clinical trial in Malawi comparing a decoction of ground tea stalks with silver sulfadiazine gave better results for bacterial growth, eschar formation.
L Chokotho, E van Hasselt. The use of tannins in the local treatment of burn wounds-a pilot study. Malawi Med Journal, 2005, 17, 19-20
Durham University and University College London are pleased to announce the establishment of a new multi-disciplinary research network called the BOVA (Building out vector-borne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa) Network.
Anthocyanins are generally accepted as the largest and most important group of water-soluble pigments in nature. Research articles on anthocyanins have escalated dramatically in the last 20 years : 230 in the decade from 1982 through 1991, 753 from 1992 through 2001 and 3043 from 2002 through 2012 Anthocyanin pigments and associated flavonoids have demonstrated ability to protect against a myriad of human diseases.
Mary Ann Lila, Anthocyanins and Human Health : an in vitro investigative Approach. J Biomed Biotechnol 2004, 5. 306-313
Or why cats and dogs are malariafree.
Taurine, a sulfur-containing amino acid, is the most abundant amino acid in mammals, occurring both in cells and in blood plasma. High concentrations of taurine are found in the heart, retina, bile, brain, plasma, platelets, leucocytes, whereas smaller amounts are found in liver, erythrocytes, muscles, kidney.
Cécile Petton. La taurine: point sur ses propriétés et son utilization en 2011. Thèse de doctorat. Université dde Nantes 2011.
For the 25 million children who live across the Sahel, where there is a seasonal surge in malaria incidence, the World Health Organization recommends seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) as an effective tool in the fight against malaria. Approximately 12 million children were protected through SMC programmes in 2016, with over 6.4 million children covered through the ACCESS-SMC project, funded by UNITAID and led by Malaria Consortium in partnership with Catholic Relief Services.
We are excited to start a survey for the Pan African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA), sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. PAMCA is currently establishing a database of all institutions and individual scientists operating in the field of medical entomology, in particular mosquito borne diseases, across Africa.
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Reports to: Director, Malaria Elimination Initiative (ISGlobal)
Starting date: September 2017
Closing date for applications: 17:00 CEST on 21 August 2017
BASF introduces first new class of public health insecticide for malaria prevention in more than 30 years.
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Efficient in use and costs
Drones against malaria seeks your support for the crowdfunding campaign ‘Anti Malaria Drones’ to generate € 18.000 for a malaria control pilot project using a drone that sprays an environmentally sound biological control agent over rice fields in Western Kenya. Please give your support and share this request with your colleagues and friends: www.antimalariadrones.com
