Africa Fighting Malaria Updates and Events

Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) seeks to raise awareness of the huge burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and promote sensible policies for long-term solutions. The role of pre-shipment batch testing in ensuring good medicine quality   Most donor agencies only procure drugs approved by a Stringent Regulatory Authority or the World Health Organization (WHO) Prequalification Programme in an effort to ensure high quality. However, the US President's Malaria Initiative has occasionally had to return approved drugs with quality issues to the manufacturer. This study compares the quality of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) produced by WHO-approved manufacturers with non-approved manufacturers and suggests policy changes to improve quality of donor-procured drugs.     Read More  Other News Ancient algae may hold key to treating malaria... Rationale for recommending a lower dose of primaquine... Open-label trial of three dosage regimens of fixed-dose combination of artemisinin and naphthoquine... Events and Information January 16-18, 2013: Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) Meeting in Namibia January 28-30, 2013: Eighth annual meeting of the Vector Control Working Group in Geneva, Switzerland. Check out the book "The Excellent Powder: DDT's Political and Scientific History". Scaling up malaria treatment: a review of the performance of different providers Despite great progress towards malaria control, the disease continues to be a major public health problem in many developing countries, especially for poor women and children in remote areas. Resistance to artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) emerged in East Asia. Its spread would threaten the only effective malaria treatment currently available. Improvement in availability of diagnosis as part of malaria control has highlighted the fact that many fevers are not due to malaria. These fevers also need to be promptly diagnosed and adequately treated in order to improve public health outcomes in developing countries.  Read More Local population structure of Plasmodium: impact on malaria control and elimination Regardless of the growing interest in detecting population structures in malarial parasites, there have been limited discussions on how to use this concept in control programmes. In such context, the effects of the parasite population structures will depend on interventions' spatial or temporal scales. Read More  Also on FightingMalaria.org News AFM Articles Research About AFM Contact Us Donate to AFM Please email Africa@fightingmalaria.orgfor more information.

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