topnaman | Malaria blog

The military and malaria have a long history together. Regarded as a scourge of soldiers in tropical areas, the disease is said to have been responsible for more casualties than bullets. In fact, military research produced many of our modern antimalarials including resochin (chloroquine) by the Germans prior to World War 2 and mefloquine which [...]

The Gates Foundation recently released the 104 funded “exploration” topics from an applicant pool of about 4,000 grants. It’s an interesting initiative (previously mentioned here) and my friend Andrew McKee has already posted a great summary of the grants directly or indirectly related to malaria. It’s interesting to note all the applications I came across [...]

Millions of people get treated for malaria every year so its important to use an antimalarial which works. Treatment failures result in a prolonged illness for the patient with an increased risk of severe malaria and death. In addition, they contribute to increased malaria transmission. Makes sense right? However, the parasite has an amazing ability [...]

I have a lot of respect for the BBC and the quality programming they produce, especially when it deals with global health. “Survival” is a new global health documentary produced by BBC World News. The series began October 4th and ends on November 29th - including an entire episode dedicated to malaria which will air [...]