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Malaria resurgence: a systematic review and assessment of its causes
This review paper explores documented episodes of malaria resurgence worldwide, and assesses their association with malaria control programmes, a higher risk of disease transmission and drug resistance. It identifies 75 instances of resurgence in 61 countries over a period of 70 years, with the...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: April 2012 | EN
Malaria: Burden and Interventions
This peer-reviewed report, from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), summarises current evidence on malaria, covering topics that range from epidemiology to public health interventions, disease management and elimination. It focuses on areas where policy or practical decisions...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2010 | EN
New vaccines for global health
This special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Science explores how vaccines can fulfil their full potential for addressing global health challenges. It charts the progress to date, reviewing successes as well as challenges in the development and...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 12 October 2011 | EN
Antimalarial drug resistance and the importance of drug quality monitoring
This report makes a case for the importance of antimalarialhttp://www.scidev.net/en/health/malaria/ drug monitoring as an integral part of disease surveillance programmes in developing countries. Antimalarials are some of the most commonly counterfeited...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October–December 2006 | EN
Barriers to the effective treatment and prevention of malaria in Africa: A systematic review of qualitative studies
Too few effective antimalarials and poor use of bednets are two main reasons offered for why malaria still kills millions every year. This systematic review suggests that social and cultural factors in tackling malaria are often ignored. For example, many people in the developing world still use...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: October 2009 | EN
Nutrition and health in developing countries
The author list for this collection of chapters, with names like Cesar Victora and Carine Ronsman, reads like a 'Who's Who' in nutrition and health for the developing world. The chapter topics are wide-ranging and include subjects such as the economics of nutrition programmes, the extent to which...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2008 | EN
Econutrition: Implementation models from the Millennium Villages project in Africa
This paper explains how interdisciplinary collaboration in health, nutrition, and agriculture has helped the Millennium Villages Project in 12 African villages meet the Millennium Development Goals. Global science is increasingly under pressure to become more interdisciplinary. Econutrition is...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2006 | EN
Global warming and malaria: Knowing the horse before hitching the cart
Paul Reiter, a researcher on insects and infectious disease at the Institut Pasteur in France, is not convinced that climate change will cause a rise in malaria in tropical regions. In this opinionated review he sets out to dispel widely held "common misconceptions" about the effect of climate...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: December 2008 | EN
Climate change and vector-borne diseases: A regional analysis
As global temperatures rise, vector-borne disease is set to increase in the developing world but patterns will vary across countries. This review looks at how the prevalence of vector-borne disease will change in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. As the authors...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2000 | EN
Managing the health effects of climate change
This report provides a policy framework for assessing the impacts of climate change on health, including vector-borne disease, by considering five challenges: informational, poverty and equity-related, technological, sociopolitical and institutional. It begins with a detailed outline of climate...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: May 2009 | EN
Impact of regional climate change on human health
This Nature paper reviews evidence that a changing climate poses significant health risks and that global warming over the past few years has already increased illness and death worldwide. Infectious diseases are strongly affected by climatic variations because the vectors that carry the bacteria...
KEY DOCUMENT | EN
Malaria and its vectors in the Caribbean: The continuing challenge of the disease forty-five years after eradication from the islands
This journal article, written by three researchers in Trinidad and Tobago, looks at malaria in the Caribbean. It asks why there are still outbreaks -- including a big one in Jamaica in 2006/2007 -- when the disease was allegedly eliminated in the late 1950s. The authors review malaria and vector...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: November 2008 | EN
Using climate to predict infectious disease epidemics
This report from the WHO assesses the potential for creating early warning systems for vector-borne disease. It reviews the current state of research for several diseases such as dengue fever, leishmaniasis, malaria and West Nile virus. The report includes an algorithmic framework for developing...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2005 | EN
Climate change 2001: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
The third IPCC assessment report, Climate Change 2001, includes this section on the links between climate change and health. It offers a detailed look at how variations in climate, such as temperature or rainfall, could affect vector-borne disease. In particular, it evaluates computer models that...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2003 | EN
The knowledge basis of Africa – Status and perspectives
This paper maps African countries' knowledge base through patent applications and publications. It shows South Africa as academically, and technically, the strongest country of the continent. The number of publications is growing in other African countries, but patenting remains limited all-round. ...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2005 | EN
National code of health research ethics in Nigeria
This draft document contains general guidelines on the creation and governance of health research ethics committees (HRECs) in Nigeria. It also lists the principal characteristics research projects need to demonstrate in order to gain HREC approval. Research in Nigeria must have social or...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2006 | EN
Evaluating diagnostics: the malaria guide
This collection of articles forms an operational guide on how to conduct evaluations of diagnostic tests for malaria. It was published as a special supplement in Nature Reviews Microbiology. The collection includes an introduction, two review articles and a relevant set of guidelines. The first...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: September 2006 | EN
Malaria transmission blocking vaccines: an ideal public good
A vaccine that stops people passing on the malaria parasite to others would benefit communities rather than individuals -- since individuals could still become infected with the malaria parasite. This report summarises this and other conclusions of a 1999 meeting between international scientists...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2000 | EN
Malaria transmission blocking vaccines: an ideal public good
A vaccine that stops people passing on the malaria parasite to others would benefit communities rather than individuals -- since individuals could still become infected with the malaria parasite. This report summarises this and other conclusions of a 1999 meeting between international scientists...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: 2000 | EN
The promise and potential challenges of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants (IPTi)
This clearly written review examines many current questions about using Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) in pregnant women or in infants to reduce the numbers of clinical episodes and deaths due to malaria. Treatment is given at fixed time intervals regardless of whether the person is...
KEY DOCUMENT | Publication date: July 2005 | EN
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