Today, ahead of this week’s high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) during the UN General Assembly’s 79th session in New York, Malaria No More co-hosted an event entitled, “Racing Against Antimalarial Resistance: Driving Global Action to Support National Response Efforts” alongside Medicines for Malaria Venture and RBM Partnership to End Malaria, and in partnership with […] The post UNGA79 Side Event: Racing Against Antimalarial Resistance appeared first on Malaria No More ..read more

In a discussion with Malaria No More, Netflix director, Alex Braverman, discusses the new five-part docuseries on Netflix, “What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates”, premiering September 18th, including an episode exploring the fight against malaria. The post Netflix Director Discusses New “What’s Next” Series with Episode Exploring the Malaria Fight appeared first on Malaria No More ..read more

Women and girls often face higher risks and vulnerability to infection, barriers to health information and services, and a lack of decision-making power and control over resources. The post A global conversation on integrating gender in malaria responses appeared first on Malaria No More ..read more

This Summer, twenty-eight leading malaria scientists from 10 countries issued an urgent call to action in the journal Science to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading in Africa. In a recent discussion with Malaria No More, two of the malaria scientists from the Center for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Dr. Lorenz von Seidlein and Dr. Mehul […] The post Malaria Know More: Malaria Scientists Urge Radical Action to Stop Drug-resistance appeared first on Malaria No More ..read more

In an interview with Malaria No More, Dr. Sara Healy, Clinical Trials Director, Laboratory of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discusses the results of a recent clinical trial with Sanaria® PfSPZ Vaccine, a groundbreaking new malaria vaccine that was found to offer malaria protections for women during pregnancy. The post Malaria Know More: NIAID Clinical Trials Director, Dr Sara Healy, Discusses a Breakthrough Malaria Vaccine Offering New Protections for Pregnant Women appeared first on Malaria No More ..read more

In a discussion with Malaria No More, Mark Smith, a Professor in Water Science and Health in Leeds’ School of Geography and lead author of a new study, discusses how his research resulted in developing a new model for estimating the potential effects of climate change on suitability for malaria transmission in Africa and how it could eventually lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease. Your team recently published a new climate change study that uses hydrology-driven modeling to estimate malaria suitability. How did this project come to be? SMITH: This began about 14 or 15 y ..read more

Washington, D.C., June 20, 2024 - Malaria No More CEO Martin Edlund issued the following statement upon the announcement that the Biden Administration has pledged $1.58 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance for the 2026-2030 period: Malaria No More welcomes the announcement of this early and robust pledge of $1.58 billion from the U.S. to Gavi’s replenishment. Through this pledge, the United States is sending a signal to the rest of the world that addressing urgent global health challenges will not only save millions of lives but improve health security and economies around the world. We encou ..read more

In an interview with Malaria No More, Dr. Photini Sinnis, the Deputy Director of the Malaria Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses her latest malaria research, as well as her outlook on what to expect in 2024 given the spread of the Anopheles stephensi species, climate change, last year’s reemergence of malaria in the United States, and other challenges. What is your team currently working on? SINNIS: My team works on the sporozoite stage of the parasite, or when infection gets established. It's completely asymptomatic. You don't know you've been bitten by ..read more

On this International Women’s Day, Malaria No More celebrates the important role women play in combating malaria around the world, making up almost 70% of the global health workforce instrumental to driving down malaria cases and deaths in remote and rural communities. Whether as patients, caregivers, or healthcare workers, women and adolescent girls also face unique vulnerabilities to malaria. During pregnancy, malaria risk increases exponentially, targeting the placenta and putting the pregnant girl or woman and the unborn baby at greater risk of death, illness, anemia and stunted growth. In ..read more

In an interview with Malaria No More, Alex Tabarrok, a professor of economics at George Mason University, discusses treating malaria distributions as an “emergency.” During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tabarrok, served as an advisor to the US government on using incentives to accelerate vaccine production. You recently wrote a blog entitled, “What is an Emergency? The Case for Rapid Malaria Vaccination.” What makes malaria an emergency and how does vaccine distribution change things? TABARROK: We tend to think of new problems as emergencies and old problems as a normal state of a ..read more