Malaria by the numbers: are the statistics real or are they a barrier to...
George Mwinnyaa grew up in a small village in Ghana, West Africa. “I witnessed the death of several people including my siblings and my father. I became a health volunteer and later a community health...
View ArticleUniversal Health Coverage – Where is Malaria?
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is the theme of the 2018 World Health Day on April 7th. The concept was applied to malaria in 2009 regarding the provision of long lasting insecticide-treated nets...
View ArticleCommunity Health Volunteers Contribute to Improved Malaria Prevention and...
Kodjo Morgah, Eric Tchinda, and Naibei Mbaïbardoum of Jhpiego (a Johns Hopkins University Affiliate) in Cameroon are presenting a poster at the Multilateral Initiative for Malaria Conference in Dakar...
View ArticleOn World Malaria Day the realities of resurgence should energize the call to...
Dr Pedro Alonso who directed the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Program, has had several opportunities in the past two weeks to remind the global community that complacency on malaria...
View ArticleBurkina Faso Celebrated World Malaria Day with Pledges to Defeat Malaria
Burkina Faso celebrated World Malaria Day with pledges to Defeat Malaria on 25th April 2018. Dr Ousman Badolo. Technical Director of Jhpiego’s USAID/PMI Supported Improving Malaria Care (IMC) Project...
View ArticleAgriculture and Promotion of Food Security Can Affect Malaria Transmission
The link between malaria and food security in a global context has been made. The influence of malaria on food security was examined. Now the connection between agriculture practices/food security and...
View ArticleMalawi Makes Progress and Plans to Defeat Malaria: Directions from the 2017...
Malawi has conducted four Malaria Indicator Surveys (MIS), with the most recent being in 2017. Such surveys are crucial tools for [planning and evaluating efforts by national control programs and their...
View ArticleTanzania Malaria Indicator Survey, ITNs and the View of the Press
Take away messages by the Press sometimes need a bit of clarification. A recent report in The Citizen (Dar es Salaam) expressed that the author was ‘startled’ to mean from the recent Malaria Indicator...
View ArticleMapping to Integrate Filariasis and Onchocerciasis Control with Malaria...
William R Brieger (wbriege1@jhu.edu) and Gilbert Burnham (gburnha1@jhu.edu) of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health presented ideas about mapping and...
View ArticleEstablishing Mobile Outreach Teams (MOTs) for strengthening Active Case...
Mobile migrant populations present a special challenge for malaria control and elimination efforts. Nguyen Ha Nam and colleagues* (Nguyen Xuan Thang, Gary Dahl, James O’Donnell, Vashti Irani, Sara...
View ArticleTanzania: Slow Progress in Preventing Malaria
The full 2017 Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) results have been published for Tanzania providing an opportunity to look at the findings in more detail. Several important factors need highlighting since...
View ArticleMalaria funding may never be enough, but better program management should be...
The World Malaria Report shows that malaria cases are up, and even though there are fewer reported cases in 2017 than 2010, the number is greater than 2016. So once again high burden countries are...
View ArticleGuinea: The Challenge of Malaria Control in a Post-Ebola Context
The preliminary 2018 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data have been released for Guinea (Conakry). Since the last DHS in 2012, Guinea and its neighbors experienced the largest Ebola outbreak in...
View ArticleEquity in Malaria Programming, the example of bednets
The WHO defines Equity as “the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically...
View ArticleZero Malaria Starts with Universal Coverage: Part 1 Nets
WHO says, “Malaria elimination and universal health coverage go hand in hand,” at a special event during the 72st World Health Assembly. To achieve zero malaria, the goal of involving everyone from the...
View ArticleThe Weekly Tropical Health News 2019-06-29
Below we highlight some of the news we have shared on our Facebook Tropical Health Group page during the past week. Polio Persists If all it took to eradicate a disease was a well proven drug, vaccine...
View ArticleNigeria’s 2018 Demographic and Health Survey: Malaria Situation
The Demographic and Health Survey for 2018 in Nigeria has released preliminary findings. These cover insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs), Intermittent Preventive Treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp),...
View ArticleThe Weekly Tropical Health News 2019-07-13
In the past week more attention was drawn to the apparently never-ending year-long Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Regarding other diseases, there is new...
View ArticleTropical Health Update 2019-07-28: Ebola and Malaria Crises
This posting focuses on Malaria and Ebola, both of which have been the recent focus of some disturbing news. The malaria community has been disturbed by the clear documentation of resistance to drugs...
View ArticleTropical Health Update 2019-08-04: Ebola, Malaria Vectors, Snakebite and...
In the past week urban transmission in Goma, a city of at least 2 million inhabitants in eastern Democratic republic of Congo, was documented as a gold miner came home and infected his wife and child....
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