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Roundup of articles and publications on the latest innovations in malaria, polio, lymphatic filariasis, and onchocerciasis
30 Sep 2024 – Below we feature a compilation of headlines, scientific articles, and technical reports on innovations, R&D and elimination progress towards polio, malaria, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis. We will be publishing these updates bi-weekly and hope they are useful.
Vector Control
- Stable introduction of Wolbachia wPip into invasive Anopheles stephensi for potential malaria control – Link
Diagnostic testing and treatment
- Scientists design new drug to fight malaria – Link | Link to Paper
- Designing of a chimeric multiepitope vaccine against bancroftian lymphatic filariasis through immunoinformatics approaches – Link
Drug resistance
- Whole-genome sequencing of major malaria vectors reveals the evolution of new insecticide resistance variants in a longitudinal study in Burkina Faso – Link
Immunisation
- Ghana expands malaria vaccine rollout – Link
- The Taliban suspends polio vaccine campaign in Afghanistan – here’s the likely impact – Link
Elimination progress
- Brazil eliminates lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem – Link
- Progress in eliminating onchocerciasis in the WHO Region of the Americas: Report from the Inter American Conference on Onchocerciasis (IACO) 2023 – Link
- The Philippines: Supporting country- and community-led efforts to end malaria – Link
Climate and Health
- Temperature dependence of mosquitoes: Comparing mechanistic and machine learning approaches – Link
Other
- African leaders at UN warn against dwindling malaria funding – Link
- Attitudes and perceptions towards epilepsy in an onchocerciasis-endemic region of Tanzania: a mixed approach to determine the magnitude and driving factors. – Link
- Tackling malaria in countries hardest hit by the disease: ministerial conference report, Yaoundé, Cameroon, 6 March 2024 – Link
- GPEI welcomes 23rd annual report from the independent monitoring board – Link
- Functional antibody responses associated with effectiveness of RTS,S malaria vaccine in children: new insights and implications – Link
- GPEI welcomes Canada’s pledge of CAN $151 million to achieve global eradication of polio and build stronger health systems worldwide – Link
- PfSPZ vaccine shows efficacy against P Falciparum and malaria in women who become pregnant – Link | Link to Paper
- Why becoming a positive deviant for malaria prevention and control: a sequential explanatory mixed methods study in Bugesera district, Rwanda – Link
- Expanding the roles of malaria post workers in Thailand: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives – Link
- Rapid malaria tests tied to better fever control, more antibiotics in African children – Link | Link to paper
- Africa: Malaria Consortium partners with Ethiopian Government to strengthen critical malaria preparedness and response – Link
- Prospective acceptability of mass drug administration for malaria in Kedougou region in Senegal: a mixed method study – Link
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