Like the coronavirus causing the current pandemic, both the malaria parasite and mosquito vector are developing ways to avoid control.
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To achieve malaria elimination on the continent, Africans need to own the agenda.
Malaria control must move away from relying too much on insecticides to more innovative and sustainable options. Genetic programming of mosquitoes is one.
Avoiding malaria could be as simple as “ABCD” if the proper care is taken.
When there are two malaria prevention interventions available people don’t take an either or approach – they consider that the two interventions are complementary.
Malaria is a major public health problem that affects 106 countries globally. A rigorous and systematic approach to predict and control malaria transmission is needed.
The history of malaria prevalence in Africa is a long term cycle of highs and lows. However, there’s been little change in the high transmission belt that covers parts of West and Central Africa.
The simple use of a net intended to curb malaria by fishers has become a classic conservation problem.
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Stockholm University
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Professor of Malaria Epidemiology, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine,, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate , Medical Parasitologist, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Chief Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Scientist, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Chercheuse en sciences sociales au CNRS, Paris School of Economics – École d'économie de Paris
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Professor in the Department of Economics, University of South Florida
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Principal Pathologist, Centre for Emerging, Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Wits Research Institute for Malaria, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute
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Director of Scientific Operations at the Pan-African Mosquito Control Association and Associate Professor of Medical Entomology, Université des sciences, des techniques et des technologies de Bamako
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of South Florida