http://topnaman.com malaria news and discussion Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:06:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://topnaman.com/random/fighting-malaria-since-the-skeeter-beaters/ 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 ... http://topnaman.com/research/mosquito-syringes-and-more-funded-by-the-gates-foundations-grand-challenges/ 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 ... http://topnaman.com/drug-resistance/monitoring-antimalarial-drug-resistance-with-molecular-tools/ 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 ... http://topnaman.com/communication/survival-a-new-bbc-global-health-series-showcases-malaria/ The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) coalition's Global Malaria Action Plan was released against the backdrop of the world's mover and shakers at the recent UN meeting. The Plan calls for a worldwide scale-up of key interventions with the goal of saving 4.2 million lives by 2015 and several other milestones ... http://topnaman.com/policy/launch-of-the-global-malaria-action-plan/ The latest World Malaria Report has been released by the Global Malaria Program at the World Health Organization. More later. http://topnaman.com/surveillance/2008-world-malaria-report-released/ I should begin with a disclaimer - I'm not a malaria vaccine researcher. The idea I'm proposing may be a dead end, or possess some fatal flow unknown to me. Still, from what I do know, it seems to make a lot of sense. I came to this idea after ... http://topnaman.com/research/resurrecting-the-past-to-create-a-new-malaria-vaccine/ About one month ago an interesting (and quite bold) article appeared in the British Medical Journal without much fanfare. Three faculty of the Swiss Tropical Institute wrote about why we should pursue a strategy of universal coverage with key interventions rather than an elimination plan. One name on the paper ... http://topnaman.com/policy/malaria-elimination-or-eradication-vs-control-what-is-the-big-deal/ At the beginning of this month Gates announced the second round of its Grand Challenges Explorations initiative. The original Grand Challenges in Global Health sought to identify the most critical scientific challenges in global health and direct funding towards solving them. The Explorations Initiative, which accepted its first round of ... http://topnaman.com/research/the-grand-challenge-of-eradication-gates-foundation-is-looking-for-new-tools/ I'm an author on an editorial in this month's Bulletin of the World Health Organization on communicable diseases in Southeast Asia. Excerpts: Multidrug-resistant malaria, including artemisinin resistance at the border of Cambodia and Thailand, threatens to jeopardize the provision of effective antimalarial treatment worldwide... A theme issue of the Bulletin will provide a ... http://topnaman.com/advocacy/malaria-and-other-communicable-diseases-in-southeast-asia/