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World Malaria Day 2014 – How Best to Invest in Malaria Prevention and Control

April 24, 2014 By Claire Standley, Editor Leave a Comment

Each year, World Malaria Day provides an opportunity to reflect on the current status of the fight against malaria. We are in the middle year of the World Malaria Day theme of “Invest in the Future. Defeat Malaria," which is set to last until 2015. Funding for malaria control and prevention, as with all international public health endeavors, has always been perceived as a critical issue, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs, World Malaria Day Tagged With: Brazil, CDC, elimination, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria, Hervé Verhoosel, India, Nigeria, Roll Back Malaria, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Thailand, WHO, World Malaria Day 2014

The Future of Subsidized Malaria Drugs (ACTs)

January 6, 2013 By Claire Standley, Editor 1 Comment

In November 2012, the Board of the Global Fund meets to determine the future of the Affordable Medicines Facility – malaria. Should it be cut, to make better use of limited funds? Or does it still have a role to play in the fight against malaria? In late 2009, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (hereafter, the Global Fund) launched an initiative called the Affordable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogs Tagged With: ACTs, Affordable Medicines Facility Malaria, AFMm, Global Fund, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria

Challenges in Malaria Research: 2012 Highlights

October 22, 2012 By Malaria.com Leave a Comment

Guest bloggers Rosalind Howes and Katherine Battle report from this month’s Challenges in Malaria Research Conference in Basel, Switzerland. The fight against malaria has enjoyed unprecedented financial and research investment over the past decade, with ensuing successes including important drops in malaria mortality and morbidity, stories of national elimination and targets set for regional … [Read more...]

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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 Americas I 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 travel In 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 planet Travellers 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

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