Malaria is still endemic in Africa.
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Mosquito populations can respond quickly to changing climate, which means the location of areas at risk of malaria might change.
Progress against malaria has stalled. There’s been an increase in the number of cases reported since 2015.
Researchers have tried unsuccessfully for decades to develop a malaria vaccine. Now a new approach, showing promise in mice, suggests it is possible to block mosquitoes from spreading the disease.
Malaria elimination in Malawi is lagging because research isn’t being used properly.
Epidemiologists and public health managers are looking to complement indoor-based malaria solutions with those that focus on the outdoors. Drones are a crucial part of their armoury.
Malaria in South Africa is close to being eliminated but to complicate matters scientists have identified a second mosquito transmitting the disease.
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ph.D. Candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department, University at Buffalo
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Director of Wits Research Institute for Malaria in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Global Professor in Water & Planetary Health, University of Lincoln
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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Water Science & Heath, University of Leeds
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Senior lecturer, Biochemistry, North-West University
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Professor at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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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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Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS, Aberystwyth University