With 210 pages of facts, stats and graphics, the World Malaria Report 2018 is a scientist’s dream. And as parasitologists across the globe update their manuscripts, let’s look at what this year’s report says.
Stellar Murumba has been investigating substandard antimalarial drugs. Her work has led to the Kenyan Health Ministry to recall Duo-Cotecxin, a commonly used antimalarial.
Iron deficiencies in African children could protect them from malaria, a UN biodiversity conference may impose a ban on the use of gene drives and North and South Korea will establish a joint response system for malaria and TB.
Rachel Carson was a passionate scientist and ecologist who wrote about the environment. Her most famous book, Silent Spring, discusses the consequences of DDT misuse.
Deforestation leads to a ten-fold increase of monkey malaria in Malaysia and malaria fights back with resistance to Chloroquine.
Annemarie Quinn and Code Sangala speak to me about their charity, Music Against Malaria. They’re currently touring Malawi to raise money for the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre.
I was delighted to speak to Laurence Reed of BBC Radio Cornwall about Fight Malaria, the Malaria Conference that took place earlier this year and the future of the disease.
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Professor Marcia Castro from Harvard University helped launch MalariaX. It’s an online course that details the science and technology of malaria, as well as the historical, political, social and economic factors to its eradication.
Researchers photograph antibodies working together to bind to malaria, activists campaign against the release of genetically modified mosquitoes and Joan Nalubega, 21, wins $12,500 for her anti-malaria soap company, Uganics.