Given the high burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, a partially effective vaccine is considered better than none.
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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.
Progress in malaria control has stalled. Research towards an effective vaccine is underway.
Baringo county and other areas on the western side of Kenya are struggling to reduce their seasonal malaria caseloads.
After an exceptional period of success in global malaria control, the progress has stalled. New strategies are needed to suit a variety of transmission patterns.
Stronger malaria prevention like a vaccine is urgently needed for effective response in endemic regions.
The link between taking iron supplements and the increased risk of contracting malaria is a complex one.
The irritating buzz that rings in your ear in the dead of the night comes from an insect barely traceable with your naked eye. Here are a few facts worth knowing about the mosquito.
Across the world scientists are trying to find a new drug that the malaria carrying parasite will struggle to develop a resistance to.
Several countries within southern Africa are on the brink of eliminating malaria. But there are several challenges ahead.
As the World Health Organisation disbands the Roll Back Malaria secretariat, the focus is on the new malaria programme and whether it will have the same successes.
The announcement that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) aims to register a malaria vaccine came on the same day Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for predicting the existence…
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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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Professor in Molecular Parasitology and Genetics, Federal University, Oye Ekiti
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Co-Director, Institute of Infection, Chair, Immunology & Vaccinology, Imperial College London
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Project Manager, Cambridge Africa, Anglia Ruskin University
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UP ISMC: Project Manager and Coordinator, University of Pretoria
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Research Chair, Integrated Vector Management in the Vector Control Cluster, Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Medical Entomologist at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nairobi
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Director: UP Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, Biochemistry, North-West University
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Research Fellow, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Professor of virology and theme leader for viral infectious diseases, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland