Malaria is still endemic in Africa.
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Quercetin, a plant-based flavonoid that give plants their bright colours, was found to disrupt malaria parasites.
Mosquitoes are the world’s most dangerous animal. It’s important to know how to avoid malaria.
This mosquito spreads very fast to new areas and can adapt to various climatic conditions, unlike the non-invasive malaria vectors.
There are many reasons that malaria is so persistent in Africa. Four of them are poverty, human movement, resistance and climate change.
Malaria is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. So why has it taken so long to get a vaccine?
Nigeria must invest more in research and incorporate World Health Organisation-recommended interventions to eliminate malaria.
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.
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.
Despite tests which rapidly test for malaria being around for several years, overtreatment of malarial drugs still takes place in Africa.
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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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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Lecturer in Remote Sensing and GIS, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Pharmacology, University of Ibadan
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Professor in Molecular Parasitology and Genetics, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland
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Professor, University of Ibadan
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Lecturer and Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Senior lecturer, Biochemistry, North-West University
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Senior Medical Scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Stellenbosch University
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Malaria Epidemiology, Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine,, University of Oxford