1st Malaria World Congress : Abstract Deadline Extended!
Submissions are now closing Wednesday 4th April.
The deadline for submitting your work for program consideration has been extended until Wednesday 4th April 2018.
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MIM2018: Keynote speaker Dr. Stephen L. Hoffman MD
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Stephen L. Hoffman Keynote speaker MIM 2018 |
How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria
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8 March 2018, Carl Zimmer (New York Times)
The genetic mutation arose 7,300 years ago in just one person in West Africa, scientists reported on Thursday. Its advantage: a shield against rampant malaria.
Thousands of years ago, a special child was born in the Sahara. At the time, this was not a desert; it was a green belt of savannas, woodlands, lakes and rivers. Bands of hunter-gatherers thrived there, catching fish and spearing hippos.
Press release: WHO provides first-ever approval for rectal artesunate product for severe malaria
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MMV collaboration helps make life-saving intervention more widely available
Volunteer opportunity with MESA
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MESA is seeking 3 volunteer MESA Correspondents to report from the 2018 MIM conference in Dakar, Senegal.
New from MESA: MESA Correspondents bring you back to ASTMH 2017
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You can now read the reports from the MESA Correspondents on the following ASTMH 2017 sessions, written by Krystal Birungi and Krijn Paaijmans with editorial support from the MESA team:
New from MESA: Recorded presentations from ASTMH 2017
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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.
Vote for the malaria documentary Hope for Bioko
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 is communications partner for the 1st Malaria World Congress
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.
1st Malaria World Congress: Deadlines Updated
New deadlines for oral and poster submission!
- Oral submission deadline: Midnight AEST Friday 16 March 2018
- Poster submission deadline: Midnight AEST Friday 22 June 2018
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.
1st Malaria World Congress: Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities Now Available
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.
1st Malaria World Congress: Registration & deadlines
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!
1st Malaria World Congress: 1-5 July 2018, Australia
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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.
New from MESA: Opportunity to Direct Global Effort re. Malaria Eradication - RFP (Technical/ICT)
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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).
Prophylaxis against malaria with Azadirachta extracts and NeemAzal*
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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.
Obituary: Professor Mike Service
It is with great sadness that MalariaWorld announces the death of Professor Mike Service. Professor Service passed away aged 84.
12 December 2017
How to fix the failing WHO strategy
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.
Critique of WHO 2017 Malaria Report
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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 WHO World Malaria Report 2017 is out!
The World Malaria Report 2017 draws on data from 91 countries and areas with ongoing malaria transmission.
Press Release: GSK submits US regulatory application for single-dose tafenoquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria
Issued: Tuesday 28 November 2017, London UK; Geneva, Switzerland
Regulatory milestone affirms GSK's strong commitment and scientific capabilities to fighting infectious diseases
New from MESA: Updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication
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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
An updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradication is coming soon!
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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
US Presidential Malaria Initiative is expanding
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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,
Anthocyanins, caffeoylquinic acids, wound and ulcer healing
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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
Building out vector-borne diseases in Africa – launch of new research network and funding call!
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 and sickle cells
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
The underestimated role of taurine
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.
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