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Background reading Keystone Symposium The Science of Malaria Eradication, February 2-7, 2014 Mexico

January 22, 2014 - 17:20 -- MalariaWorld Events
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MESA, malaria, symposium

Find the background reading for the Keystone Symposium here, for those long hours in the plane!

B. Fenton Hall and Anthony S. Fauci (2009)
The Journal of Infectious Diseases 2009;200:1639–43
 
malERA group: Alonso PL, Brown G, Arevalo-Herrera M, Binka F, Chitnis C, et al. (2011)
PLoS Med 8(1): e1000406
 
Sibao Wang and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena (2013)
Trends in Biotechnology, March 2013, Vol. 31, No. 3
 
Ashley J. Birkett, Vasee S. Moorthy, Christian Loucq, Chetan E. Chitnis and David C. Kaslow (2013)
Vaccine, Volume 31, Supplement 2, 18 April 2013, Pages B233–B243

Event: Keystone Symposium - The Science of Malaria Eradication

October 17, 2013 - 12:45 -- MalariaWorld Events
Date: February 2-7, 2014
Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Abstract Deadline: November 5, 2013
Discounted Registration Deadline: December 3, 2013
Scientific Organizers: Pedro L. Alonso, Chetan E. Chitnis and Lee Hall
 
 
Organized in collaboration with MESA – Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance
Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

MIM2013 : 6th MIM Conference from 6-11 October 2013 Durban, South Africa

October 16, 2013 - 18:25 -- MalariaWorld Events
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MIM 2013 Durban

 

 
Important dates 
30 June 2013 : Deadline for abstract submission
30 June 2013 : Deadline for travel award
30 June 2013 : Deadline for symposium submission
1 August 2013 : Late registration opens
 
What's new: pre-conference workshop
 
General information

Malaria elimination impossible to achieve without African entomologists

October 11, 2013 - 12:00 -- MalariaWorld Events

Major success in the fight against malaria has largely been due to efforts aimed at killing mosquitoes. The targeted attack has involved deployment of bed nets and indoor sprays that include insecticides. But mosquitoes are developing resistance to these chemicals while at the same time global funds for their deployment are shrinking. In the push towards global elimination of malaria, we need to get smarter in the way we wage war against our six-legged enemy.

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