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As American as…Plasmodium vivax?

April 14, 2012 By Claire Standley, Editor 1 Comment

While its evolutionary history is disputed, there’s no doubt malaria was a key factor in the history of the AmericasI am in the midst of a fascinating book about the way the world changed after Columbus “discovered” America in 14921. Called, appropriately, 1493: Uncovering the World Columbus Created, it is author Charles C. Mann’s follow-up to an earlier, equally engaging book on pre-Colombian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Anopheles, Britain, Carolina, Charles C Mann, Christopher Columbus, colonization, England, Evolution, evolutionary history, Genetics, Panama, Plasmodium Falciparum, Plasmodium simium, Plasmodium Vivax, Polynesia, Scotland, sequence analysis, slavery

Looking Ahead to 2012 and Beyond – What is the Future of the Global Fund?

January 1, 2012 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

At the beginning of December I went to the 60th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Attended by over 3500 scientists, practitioners, clinicians and students from around the world, the meeting is one of the pre-eminent global events for discussing and disseminating information related to all tropical diseases and health issues. Malaria, as you might expect, has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Global Fund, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria

Where There is No Medicine, Let Alone a Doctor

November 21, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Remote or poorly accessible communities create special challenges for delivery of health care.There were goats in my classroom this morning. Quite adorable kids, but unfortunately not the right species for my health survey. The school is located in Bunda District, sandwiched between Lake Victoria and the long western arm of Serengeti National Park, which stops only a few kilometers from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Bunda District, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, health care access, Health surveys, remote communities, Serengeti, Tanzania, Uganda

The “E” word and the “V” word: Two Holy Grails of Malaria Control

October 24, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership talks confidently of elimination—many others question if this is possible without new interventions. The recent publication of the first Phase 3 clinical trial for a malaria vaccine shows promise, but is it actually good enough?REVIEW OF:Roll Back Malaria Partnership, “Eliminating Malaria: Learning from the Past, Looking Ahead”, Progress & … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: malaria elimination, Malaria Vaccine, New England Journal of Medicine, Phase III clinical trials, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, RTS, S Clinical Trials Partnership, The Lancet, UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, World Health Organisation

Breaking the Promise of Bednets? Let’s Not Jump to Conclusions…

August 24, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor 2 Comments

Review of Trape et al., (2011), Malaria morbidity and pyrethroid resistance after the introduction of insecticide-treated bednets and artemisinin-based combination therapies: a longitudinal study, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, published online August 18th.Jean-François Trape and colleagues have been causing quite a media stir with the article they recently published in The Lancet Infectious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Bed Nets, Bednets, Jean-François Trape

Can of Worms: Travel Parasites to Know About

August 17, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Malaria isn’t the only parasite you need to think about when you travelIn my last post, I shared some of the misguided myths about malaria that I had heard while hanging out with the tourists on Zanzibar. Then, in the in-flight magazine on the internal flight between Dar and Mwanza (my flight was over an hour late…hence how the airline, Precision Air, earned its local nickname: “Imprecision … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Africa, Anclyostoma duodenale, Cordylobia anthropophagus, Dracunculiasis, Guinea worm, Helminthes, Necator americanus, Parasites, Schistosomiasis, Trichuris trichiura, Tumbo Flies, Whipworms, Zanzibar

Myths About Malaria

August 12, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor 3 Comments

I infiltrated the tourist circles of Zanzibar to find out what travellers really know about the most deadly parasite on the planetTravellers these days are pretty savvy; the ease of international travel and the ubiquity of the internet have encouraged more people to explore the world than ever before, and to be well-informed about the locations they are planning to visit. A key milestone in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Mayaria Myths

Treating Malaria by Health Extension Workers: A Case Study from Ethiopia

May 20, 2011 By Judith Standley 2 Comments

For many years the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have been promoting an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) training package to ensure that nurses and doctors are capable of treating sick children at health facilities.  Over the years, with the realization that many children did not have access to health facilities and therefore … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Catalytic Initiative of Canada, Ethiopia, Health Extension Workers, HEWs, iCCM, Malaria Treatment, Millenium Development Goals, Plasmodium Falciparum, Rapid Diagnostic Tests, Rapid Test for Malaria, UNICEF

EDITORIAL – Reflections on World Malaria Day 2011

April 25, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

How far have we come in the last four years?Four years ago, it was estimated that a child died every 30 seconds from malaria, and that more than a million people each year were killed by this devastating and debilitating disease. Four years ago, the malaria advocacy partnership Roll Back Malaria organized the first World Malaria Day, and published the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Malaria Action Plan, Malaria Deaths, Malaria No More, Roll Back Malaria, World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), World Malaria Day

From the Editor

March 14, 2011 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Welcome to the re-launch of Malaria.com, a member driven website encompassing the global malaria community.Malaria.com is designed to be dynamic and user-driven.  It is a place where, to name a few examples, researchers will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate on projects, field practitioners can blog about their adventures on the front lines of malaria control, and where the … [Read more...]

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