Malaria

Film Reviews and Commentaries

• From science to real life: tackling relapsing malaria in the Amazon Commentary by Medicines for Malaria Venture

Medical Journal Articles

• Medicines for Malaria Venture and Novartis announce positive efficacy and safety data for a novel treatment for babies <5 kg with malaria

• Alzheimer Drug Lecanemab Gains Traditional FDA Approval by Emily Harris JAMA July 19, 2023

• First Ever Malaria Vaccine to Be Distributed in Africa by Emily Harris JAMA July 19, 2023

• First US Malaria Cases in 20 Years Prompt CDC Advisory by Emily Harris JAMA July 5. 2023

• Editorial: Current Status of Two Adjuvanted Malaria Vaccines and the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategy to Eradicate Malaria by 2030 by Dinah V Parums Med Sci Monit. 2023 Jan 1;29:e939357.1

• Malaria in 2022: Increasing challenges, cautious optimism by Prasanna Jagannathan & Abel Kakuru Nature Communications

General Articles

• New drug approved for malaria treatment by T.H.Chan Harvard

• MMV echoes Swiss Malaria Group's call to invest and innovate to end malaria by MMV

• Promising new malaria vaccine for kids approved in Ghana by Sam Mednick The Associated Press

• From science to real life: tackling relapsing malaria in the Amazon Commentary by Medicines for Malaria Venture

• The impact of community delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy on its coverage in four sub-Saharan African countries (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Nigeria) by Medicines for Malaria Venture

• Strong Recommendation for Pyronaridine-Artesunate in Revised WHO Malaria Treatment Guidelines by WHO

• Monoclonal antibody prevents malaria infection in African adults by ScienceDaily

• First African-manufactured medicine to prevent malaria in pregnant women and infants quality-approved by WHO by MMV

• How Catholic Relief Services and its partners are working to end malaria in Sierra Leone by Catholic Relief Center

• MMV announces the start of ARCTIC, a feasibility study of a new Plasmodium vivax malaria treatment protocol by MMV

• This World Malaria Day MMV joins Swiss Malaria Group in calling for increased commitment to combating malaria by MMV

• WHO recommends groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children at risk by WHO

• Malaria parasite genomes provide insights and tools for control and elimination in Lake Victoria, Kenya by ScieceDaily

• The WHO recommends the world's first malaria vaccine, saying the shots could 'save tens of thousands of young lives each year' by Aylin Woodward Business Insider/Microsoft Mews

• Catholic agency warns malaria vaccine not enough to defeat the by Ngala Killian Chimtom Crux

• WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa by Lizzy Davies The Guardian/Microsoft News

• Genetic engineering test with mosquitoes ‘may be game changer’ in eliminating malaria by Linda Geddes The Guardian

• The Experimental African Houses That Outsmart Malaria by Wired

• A Breakthrough Against Mosquito-Borne Malaria by Victoria Jaggard National Geographic

• The Scourge of Covid-19 and Malaria Rages On by Father Shay Cullen Profiles in Catholicism

• New Malaria Vaccine Trial Reports 77 Percent Efficacy Rate by Theresa Machemer Smithsonian Magazine

• Not Covid-Malaria by Dr. Robyn Jennings Mission Doctors Association

• First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech by Monisha Ravisetti Academic Times

• Monthly Malaria Prophylaxis Cuts Child Deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa by Bridget M. Kuehn, MSJ JAMA. 2021;325(3):213.

• Global Fund COVID-19 Report: Deaths from HIV, TB and Malaria Could Almost Double in 12 Months Unless Urgent Action is Taken by Global Fund

• CRS head says coronavirus pandemic could threaten malaria prevention by CNA Daily News/The Catholic World Report

• Vital role for African church leaders in wiping out malaria by Anglican Communion News Service

• Promising malaria vaccine to be tested in first large field trial by Declan Butler  Nature

• Why gene-edited mosquitoes might help us beat malaria by Bill Gates LinkedIn

• Hand in Hand with the People of Togo. Economic Development That Starts with Stopping Malaria Sheila Foran UConn Today