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African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (AMMA)
The AMMA programme aims to study how the West African monsoon affects meningitis and malaria epidemics. While it focuses on one weather system, the climate factors it looks at can be generalised to other environments. For example, it examines how wind, dust, rainfall, temperature and humidity,...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate and Health Information Exchange (CHIEX)
CHIEX investigates how climate variability affects human health in the tropical Americas. It runs projects in Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Venezuela, and focuses specifically on the spread of dengue fever and malaria in these countries. These projects have practical implications; for...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Climate Institute: Human health
The health gateway of the Climate Institute, which aims to help policymakers tackle climate change, has detailed notes on the resurgence of infectious diseases through global warming. These include vector-borne diseases spread through mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies and blackflies. It...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
Health and Climate Partnership
This partnership of government and non-government organisations, researchers, international bodies and the private sector has a much-called for goal: to increase cooperation between organisations involved different sectors such as health, climate, humanitarian assistance, ecosystems, research and...
LINK | 9 September 2009 | EN
AlertNet: Alerting humanitarians to emergencies
A project of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, AlertNet is a news aggregator that aims to raise awareness of humanitarian crises around the globe, particularly 'forgotten' emergencies that rarely make headlines. It publishes news from over 400 aid agencies and other media outlets across a range of...
LINK | 3 March 2009 | EN
Global Forum for Health Research
The Global Forum for Health Research provides evidence, tools and discussion forums for decision-makers in research funding and policy to improve the health of the poor. Although it covers issues for both infectious and non-communicable diseases, the agency recognises that mental health problems...
LINK | 23 July 2008 | EN
African Malaria Network Trust
AMANET promotes capacity building in African research and training institutes that specialise in malaria studies. Its objectives include promoting collaboration among stakeholders, creating international awareness about the malaria problem in Africa, identifying test sites, developing...
LINK | 8 November 2006 | EN
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Communication Network
The MIMCom website is the hub of an electronic communication network that links African malaria researchers with the wider scientific world. It may also be of use to non-scientists interested in malaria however, including policy makers, teachers and the media. The site contains Internet...
LINK | 8 December 2005 | EN
PLoS Medicine Malaria Supplement
This collection of articles by open-access journal PLoS Medicine includes new and previously published material on the prevention, treatment and control of malaria.
LINK | 11 November 2005 | EN
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
MIM is an alliance of organisations and individuals working on tackling malaria. It aims to maximise the impact of scientific research on malaria in Africa by promoting capacity building and facilitating global collaboration to ensure that research translates into health benefits. This website...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
The IRD is a French public science and technology research institute that conducts research, consultancy and training towards supporting sustainable development in developing countries. The main interest focuses on the relationship between people and the environment, including diseases such as...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Commonwealth Health and Media Partnership
The partnership promotes training on health reporting for journalists and health workers through workshops in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The website carries regularly updated news and information, and links to useful resources such as training manuals. A mailing list enables workshop...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
The Malaria Journal
This open-access online journal publishes original research, reviews and opinions on malaria, and has a useful set of malaria research-related links.
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a non-profit organisation that funds research into diseases that affect humans and animals. The website is aimed at the general public, and describes some of the research funded by the trust. There is comprehensive and accessible coverage of the science underlying malaria...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Malaria Consortium UK
This non-profit organisation works with partners in Ghana and Uganda to improve the control and treatment of malaria. It offers services such as programme design and development, consultancy services, and technical support services to other non-governmental organisations. Information resources...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: malaria
The site is aimed at lay readers, including travellers to malaria-affected countries, physicians and health workers. It contains extensive background information on malaria disease, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control. It also covers a brief outline of the history of the discovery of...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
An independent global programme of scientific collaboration co-sponsored by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)http://www.unicef.org/ , the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)http://www.undp.org/ , the World Bankhttp://www.worldbank.org/ and the World Health Organization...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Roll Back Malaria Partnership
The World Health Organization's (WHO) Roll Back Malaria partnership is responsible for formulating malaria policy and strategy, as well as supporting operations and capacity development and co-ordinating the WHO's global efforts against malaria. This includes providing guidelines, monitoring and...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
World Health Organization: malaria
This department of the World Health Organization provides information, technical and expert guidance on prevention and control of malaria, and links to partnerships including Roll Back Malaria and the special programme on Tropical Diseases Research. Publications aimed at both non-specialists and...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
This organisation provides the US government with independent scientific analysis and advice on health issues through expert panels, including one on tropical diseases such as malaria. Recent major activities include the launch of a new African Science Academies Development...
LINK | 2 November 2005 | EN
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