Global Cause
In this issue
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2019: a crucial year of action in the fight against malaria
This World Malaria Day, Dr Abdourahmane Diallo, CEO of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, discusses the urgent need to step up commitment and investment to end malaria. History proves that continued commitment and investment in malaria elimination pays dividends. Since 2000, global progress has saved seven million lives and prevented more than one billion...
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Malaria vaccines are being trialled now
The dawn of a new era in malaria prevention is coming soon, as scientists work on developing and trialling malaria vaccines. Here’s what’s happening now. Hopes are high that malaria could be defeated soon, with malaria vaccines in clinical trials now. “We need effective vaccines as soon as possible,” says Simon Draper, the Professor of...
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The life-saving benefits of pre-referral management
In some countries, there is a — sometimes fatal — time lag before patients with severe malaria can start full treatment at health facilities. That is why ‘pre-referral’ medication is so critical. Treating patients with severe malaria is a race against the clock. “Severe malaria is the end stage of a terrible disease,” explains Pierre...
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“There is no reason why anyone should die of malaria today”
Gains made in the fight against malaria are in danger of being lost because of insecticide resistance. The world needs to think again about how it is tackling the disease — and fast. There’s no doubt about it, says Helen Pates Jamet, Global Head of Research and Market Access at Vestergaard; in the fight against...
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Shrinking the malaria map
The malaria map: the geological spread of this ancient and deadly disease, a territory that has halved since discovery. Professor Sir Richard Feachem looks at how far we have come in malaria elimination. In 1897, Ronald Ross and his team in India discovered that malaria was transmitted by anopheles mosquitoes. At this time, every country...
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David Beckham wants to kick malaria out — for good
We can’t afford to take our eye off the ball in the fight against malaria. It’s an entirely preventable but deadly disease, says David Beckham. With teamwork, we can beat it. I’ve seen first-hand the devastating, life-shattering impact that malaria can have for families in Sierra Leone and South Africa in my role as a...
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Malaria-related deaths have increased by 100% in some places
The world has fooled itself into believing that the fight against malaria can be won using the same old approach. The truth is we have to shake things up to save lives. The world must face an inconvenient truth in the fight against malaria, says Richard Allan. And it must face it now. The inescapable...
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Three changes we need to make in the fight against malaria
The world has fooled itself into believing that the fight against malaria can be won using the same old approach. The truth is we have to shake things up in order to save lives. What must be done? In some places, malaria-related deaths have increased by 100%. These three critical things now have to change:...
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Progress in tackling malaria has stalled
African leaders pledged to halve malaria mortality by 2010, when they signed the Abuja Declaration and Plan for Action in 2001. At the time, global investment in malaria was less than US$100 million. This is far below what was needed to control a disease that claimed nearly one million lives annually. The development of new...
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Innovation can help us win the fight against malaria
There is a great deal of truth in the saying, “send a net, save a life”. Vector control – the practical science of keeping mosquitoes away from people – has been the single most effective factor in accelerating progress against malaria over the past two decades. Seventy-nine percent of the reduction in the global number...