Washington, D.C., 30 September 2011 (PAHO/WHO) – Health officials from countries throughout the Americas have pledged new efforts to reduce the burden of malaria and to protect progress already made against the disease through a strategy and plan of action approved during the 51st Directing Council meeting of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
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- América Latina redujo la malaria a la mitad en 10 años pero tiene que seguir alerta
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Washington, 15 sep (EFE).- Latinoamérica logró reducir la malaria en más de un 50 por ciento en los diez años que lleva funcionando la iniciativa para la erradicación de la malaria (AMI) que se celebran hoy pero los expertos advierten que no hay que bajar la guardia.
Washington, 15 sep (EFE).- Latinoamérica logró reducir la malaria en más de un 50 por ciento en los diez años que lleva funcionando la iniciativa para la erradicación de la malaria (AMI) que se celebran hoy pero los expertos advierten que no hay que bajar la guardia.
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- AMI+RAVREDA: Successful Global Health Milestone for Malaria
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- September 16th, 2011
Today, at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. the global health and international development communities joined together to celebrate ten successful years of collaboration between the USAID Amazon Malaria Initiative and PAHO’s Amazon Network for the Surveillance of Antimalarial Drug Resistance (AMI + RAVREDA). A panel of distinguished speakers and a keynote address both reflected on the elements of success essential to this collaboration.
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- New Findings by UC Riverside Scientists Hold Big Promise for Fight Against Mosquito-borne Diseases
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- June 9th, 2011
Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases.
To find human hosts to bite and spread disease, these mosquitoes use exhaled carbon dioxide as a vital cue. A disruption of the vital carbon dioxide detection machinery of mosquitoes, which would help control the spread of diseases they transmit, has therefore been a long sought-after goal.
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- AMI - RAVREDA, Workshop on Prevention and Control of malaria in people in special circumstances
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- May 31st, 2011
During the past decade, the number of malaria cases reported in the Americas dropped more than 50%. Today, malaria transmission has stopped in many areas in our countries (though we cannot talk about its elimination yet), but continues in others, affecting populations living in what we may call special circumstances (such as Brazilian nut collectors, gold miners in the Amazon forest, Amazon native communities, and distant communities). In them, conventional strategies for malaria prevention and control do not work or cannot be implemented. To the Amazon Malaria Initiative, this represents one of our main challenges for the coming years if we aim to decrease the risk of malaria re-emergence.
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- Malaria Risk Reduced By Genetic Predisposition For Cell Suicide
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- May 20th, 2011
A human genetic variant associated with an almost 30 percent reduced risk of developing severe malaria has been identified. Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, and Kumasi University, Ghana, reveal that a variant at the FAS locus can prevent an excessive and potentially hazardous immune response in infected children. The study appears in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on May 19.
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- Malaria blocks 'super-infection'
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- May 16th, 2011
The malaria parasite can ensure it keeps a host body all to itself by preventing further malarial infections, according to international researchers.
The parasite initially reproduces in the liver and moves into the blood.A study on mice, published in Nature Medicine, showed the parasite can trigger iron deficiency in the liver and therefore prevent more infections.
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- How HIV Drugs Can Also Target Tropical Parasites
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- May 11th, 2011
Drugs used to treat HIV may form templates for lifesaving drugs targeted at malaria and other parasitic diseases, according to a new study from Cardiff University.
While scientists know that some anti-HIV drugs can kill pathogenic parasites, it was not understood how this works. Researchers have now identified a specific protein, Ddi 1 from Leishmania parasites that is sensitive to anti-HIV inhibitors. This identification has the potential to significantly change the treatment of parasitic diseases, which present a serious threat to global health.
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- Seattle BioMed study to identify biomarkers for malaria vaccine design
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- April 28th, 2011
Seattle BioMed study to identify biomarkers for malaria vaccine designIn the first study of its type in the malaria field, Seattle BioMed has been awarded an $8.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify biomarkers that will allow malaria vaccine design based on robust predictors of protective immunity. Ruobing Wang, M.D., Ph.D., will lead the study – Seattle BioMed's first to include the integration of its recently announced systems biology approach to infectious disease research – with a team that includes Seattle BioMed's Stefan Kappe, Ph.D., and Alan Aderem, Ph.D., along with Patrick Duffy, M.D., of the National Institutes of Health, Jonathan Derry, Ph.D., of Sage Bionetworks, and Xiaowu Liang, Ph.D., of Antigen Discovery Inc. (ADi).
- Malaria Champions of the Americas 2011 - Submit a nomination today
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- April 26th, 2011
As countries of the Americas work to decrease the burden of malaria in the Region, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) and the George Washington University Center for Global Health (CGH) seek to identify, celebrate, and provide avenues to emulate best practices and success stories in malaria prevention and control. Conceived and launched on 6 November 2008 during the 2nd annual commemoration of Malaria Day in the Americas, the Malaria Champions of the Americas Award honors innovative efforts that have significantly contributed towards overcoming the challenges of malaria in communities, countries, the Region, or the globe.
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