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Summary: Poor-quality antimalarial drugs lead to drug resistance and inadequate treatment, which pose an urgent threat to vulnerable populations and jeopardise progress and investments in combating malaria. Emergence of artemisinin resistance or tolerance…
The Global Plan for Insecticide Resistance Management in malaria vectors (GPIRM) is a call to action. Through this document, WHO and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership call on governments of malaria-endemic countries, donor organizations, UN agencies, as…
Success in malaria basically all boils down to quality of people managing the programs. We were very fortunate in Zanzibar to have a Minister of Health who was former head of the Zanzibar Malaria Control Programme, a dedicated Permanent Secretary and head…
Newly published in the Malaria Journal - Provisional PDF: http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-11-118.pdf Background Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for treating malaria has activity against immature gametocytes. In theory, this…
Sounds like good Anopheles habitat. Just no parasites.
Here is the RMM brochure for more detailed information.
Thanks, Mike. The strange reality is that this "thinking" parasite does seem to stay ahead of us, even in this day and age. Field observations on the link between vector control and parasite drug resistance in humans still remain pretty much observations.…
Intensive Course on Health and Human Rights: Concepts, Implementation and Impact June 11–13, 2012 Boston, MA Website: https://ccpe.sph.harvard.edu/ICHH Professionals and leaders in public health, medicine, law, development, education, humanitarian…
The Pfs25 molecule is expressed predominantly in the zygote of the mosquito. The zygote contains the mixed DNA material from the male and female parasite gametes. This zygote must develop, undergo cell division to produce sporozoites which can be injected…
FYI, there are now many initiatives to utilize mobile phones as a way to track and even provide sorts of “telemedicine” and we will likely see more as in more and more places the infrastructure for mobile phone technology is in places where there won’t be…
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Policymakers, national control program professionals, and practitioners problem solve and exchange best practices in this community with the goal of improving the prevention, management and treatment of malaria.
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Johanna Daily - Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
WELLINGTON OYIBO - University of Lagos College of Medicine
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