Dear Colleagues, Please find attached the World Malaria Report 2018. The striking point in it is that the progress to eliminate malaria has stalled. The 10 most malaria burdened countries saw an incr...

Dear Colleagues, Surveillance is an important component of the elements required in the implementation of the strategies for the control, and the elimination of malaria. One way malaria parasites are...

Dear Colleagues, Would you like to discuss this issue? How do unregulated drug shops get parenteral anti-malaria drugs?It appears that in western Uganda, people who are feeling ill and suspect that t...

Dear Colleagues, High dose Ivermectin combined with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine reduced the mosquitoe survival in a randomized, double blind placebo controlled trial in Kenya. See Smit et al....

Dear Colleagues, Plasmodium falciparum is notorious for developing resistance to a number of drugs. It would be a breakthrough if we could be able to uncover all the genes that are responsible for t...

Dear Colleagues, Here is an interesting article on Plasmodium vivax genetic mutation, that could help us understand the pattern of resistance to drugs developed by this plasmodium species in some are...

Dear colleagues, The McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health will be holding the fourth edition of its Global Health Diagnostics course. As you know, diagnosis is a critica...

Dear Colleagues, Here is an interesting case (written by Elizalde-Torrent et al., 2018) of a sudden spleen rupture due Plasmodium vivax. How many of you have seen cases like this one and what is you...

Dear Colleagues, As we pursue the fight against the malaria scourge, all innovations are encouraged. Transmission blocking drugs are not that many. Primaquine is a good one for this purpose, but it h...

Dear Colleagues, A month and half ago I was examining a hematology slide on cellavision when I saw these Plasmosdia falciparum gametocytes. The patient had traveled to Sudan a month before! We saved ...

Dear Colleagues, Placental malaria is a serious condition (see Omer et al., 2017). How can its detection be enhanced? Abstract Background Malaria infection during pregnancy can result in place...

Dear Colleagues, Here is a case that most of us would struggle to diagnose properly in the absence of molecular testing help. Highest regards. Abstract Background Since several malaria parasite...

Dear all, We are starting to enroll patients with hyper-reactive malarial splenomegaly (also known as tropical splenomegaly) in our NCD clinic in Liberia. The evidence is fairly clear in terms of t...

Dear Colleagues, Here is the news in malaria methodologies Abstract: Background Mosquito-feeding assays are important tools to guide the development and support the evaluation of transmission-bloc...

Dear Colleagues, Here is an article by Alebie, et al. (2017) summarizing antimalaria herbal plants found in Ethiopia. We have a plethora of them, in which we can find alternatives to ACTS when time c...

Dear Colleagues, Many malaria endemic countries have received aid from the USA and other donors in the fight against malaria. One country: the Gambia has used the aid very wisely. They are on the pat...

Hi, I thought to share the attached article, where Bhamla et al demonstrate use of the simplest, cheapest (paper-based) centrifuge in malaria diagnosis and several other applications. Paperfuge for m...

Dear Colleagues, I have a project and I am inviting those who are willing to collaborate to come forward. Most of it involves literature review. You may post the pertinent material under this discuss...

Malaria is on the decline in many Malaria endemic countries over the past 10 years. In this context, one of the important determinants for successful administration of a malaria control and eliminatio...

Dear Colleagues, As several malaria endemic countries aim at eliminating the disease in the next decade, some of them are using all the tools necessary to achieve the goal. Swaziland is experimenting...