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Ecotoxic impacts of Ivermectin

April 13, 2018 - 14:09 -- Pierre Lutgen
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ivermectin mass drug administration artemisia gametocytes

This anthelminthic is extensively used as veterinary medicine to control gastro-intestinal helminthes, liver flukes and lungworms. It enters into the environment primarily through its excretion, 98% in faeces

        Halley BA, Nessel RJ, Lu AYH, Chemosphere. 1989. 18, 1543-1563.

Ivermectin may be stored for long periods in soil.

        Mougin C, Kollmann, A Galtier P. Envir Chem Lett 2003, 1, 131,-134.

The potential of anthelminthics to affect dung decomposition is well known, affecting dung beetles, dung flies and epigeic eathworms.

How One Child’s Sickle Cell Mutation Helped Protect the World From Malaria

March 13, 2018 - 17:25 -- Ingeborg van Schayk
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malaria; sickle cell

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.

New from MESA: Recorded presentations from ASTMH 2017

March 2, 2018 - 16:29 -- MESA Alliance
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mesa ; malaria; ASTMH

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.

1st Malaria World Congress: Deadlines Updated

January 19, 2018 - 10:52 -- First Malaria W...
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1st MWC; malaria; congress

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

January 16, 2018 - 23:00 -- First Malaria W...
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1st MWC; malaria; congress

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

January 16, 2018 - 09:40 -- First Malaria W...
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1st MWC; malaria; congress

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

January 6, 2018 - 10:11 -- First Malaria W...
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malaria; congress

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)

December 29, 2017 - 12:09 -- MESA Alliance
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MESA ; 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).

Prophylaxis against malaria with Azadirachta extracts and NeemAzal*

December 17, 2017 - 09:51 -- Pierre Lutgen
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neem, ifbv prophylaxis, NeemAzal

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.

Critique of WHO 2017 Malaria Report

December 11, 2017 - 17:21 -- William Jobin
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malaria

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.

Press Release: GSK submits US regulatory application for single-dose tafenoquine for Plasmodium vivax malaria

December 1, 2017 - 11:25 -- Malaria World
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GSK; MMV; malaria; vivax; tafenoquine

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

December 1, 2017 - 11:03 -- MESA Alliance
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malaria; MESA

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!

October 6, 2017 - 07:45 -- MESA Alliance
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malaria; MESA

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

September 21, 2017 - 20:28 -- William Jobin
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pmi, west africa

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

September 21, 2017 - 08:19 -- Pierre Lutgen
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chlorogenic, wounds, artemisia, caffeoylquinic

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!

September 8, 2017 - 07:44 -- Ingeborg van Schayk
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network; vector-borne diseases; building

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

September 5, 2017 - 18:42 -- Pierre Lutgen
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drepanocytose anthocyanin artemisia sickle cell

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

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