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Malaria Treatment & Prevention: Community Home

Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the malaria community. We'd like to invite you to become a member, add resources (such as clinical guidelines and protocols or web links), ask questions, and exchange experiences on topics ranging from malaria policy issues to diagnostic and treatment challenges. Also feel free to post your feedback and ideas for this community in a new discussion. Thank you.

–Moderators Johanna Daily, Joel Breman, Kileken ole-MoiYoi, and Prashant Yadav

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RDTs vs. Presumptive Treatment: Medical Science vs. Pragmatism/ Economics

I'm curious about these RDT's. I work in a clinic in rural clinic and we are using microscopy. However, our lab is only open Mon -…
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8 replies, latest by Michelle Kiprop on March 10, 2010

Recommendations in Malaria Policy to the Obama Administration

Thank you for sharing these malaria policy recommendations which were made to the Obama administration. Although significant…
1 replies, latest by Kileken ole-MoiYoi on Nov. 17, 2009

School-delivery of ITNs -- a good idea?

This is a very interesting finding given that most malaria interventions are focused mainly on children below the age of 5 and…
2 replies, latest by Bolanle Bukoye on Nov. 11, 2009

Cross Post: Internet-based systems to report malaria cases in Ethiopia.

Members of the Health IT community are discussing how to report malaria cases in Ethiopia using internet based systems. Click here…
By Johanna Daily on Nov. 9, 2009

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private sector distribution chain for malaria treatment: literature review

A new article on private sector distribution chain for malaria treatment by my colleagues Edith Patouillard, Kara Hanson and…
By Prashant Yadav on Feb. 13, 2010

ACT procurement still remains a bottleneck

Reporting from Kigali,Rwanda after a few days of discussions and deliberations at the national malaria control program best…
By Prashant Yadav on Feb. 13, 2010

Moshi, Tanzania

Hi Bola, Thank you for your comment. Your research sounds very interesting and I look forward to hearing more about your findings!…
2 replies, latest by Mitsuru Toda on Jan. 27, 2010

MIM Conference-Categories of Research

By the way, do people think that there is "commited long term leadership" in contemporary antimalaria efforts??? I taught a…
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2 replies, latest by Peter Brown on Jan. 5, 2010

Traditional medicines for malaria

Kileken summarizes this ongoing debate very well. Of course, underneath this argument is a culture clash. The biomedical…
1 replies, latest by Peter Brown on Dec. 17, 2009

Congress Passes Malaria Funding

The US Congress announced the funding levels for malaria and global health after a joint committee reviewed the appropriations.…
By Prashant Yadav on Dec. 15, 2009