Forty million children are born in malaria areas across Africa each year. Two new vaccines are important weapons in the fight against the disease.
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National Institute for Communicable Diseases
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health insitute for South Africa. It provides reference microbiology,virology,epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government’s response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD is organised into functional Centres, bringing together expertise in both reference microbiology and epidemiology to enable an intergrated public health response to communicable disease threats.
The NICD primarily supports the programmes of the National and Provincial Departments of Health. As well as national support, the NICD also provides public health services such as collaborating laboratory or regional reference laboratory functions for global programmes of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
The NICD has established co-operatives agreements with partner national public health institutions such as the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and NIH/NIAID of the USA, the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) of the United Kingdom, as well as other internationally recognised public health insitutions.
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Des méthodes ne faisant pas appel aux insecticides sont nécessaires pour renforcer la lutte contre les maladies transmises par les moustiques.
Methods that don’t rely on insecticides are needed to bolster the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.
Los programas nacionales de control de la malaria en el continente africano han demostrado una gran resiliencia a pesar de los retos económicos y la competencia con otros objetivos sanitarios. En la actualidad, se enfrentan a nuevos desafíos.
Flu vaccines remain the most effective method available to prevent flu illness, especially severe illness.
Dalam bentuknya yang sekarang vaksin ini hanya bekerja sangat efektif pada anak-anak yang sangat muda, berusia antara 5-17 bulan.
Perubahan iklim dapat mempengaruhi distribusi vektor malaria. Kami berfokus secara khusus pada bagaimana vektor yang resisten terhadap insektisida terpengaruh vektor yang rentan terhadap insektisida.
Malgré les perturbations, les programmes nationaux de lutte contre le paludisme ont fait preuve d'une résistance impressionnante.
There have been disruptions. But national malaria control programmes have shown impressive resilience.
Many infections, including bacterial, fungal and viral infections can lead to sepsis and septic shock.
In hospitals, infection prevention and control cannot be met without a hygienically clean, and safe environment that has an adequate supply of clean running water.
As the Earth warms up the malaria vector will develop faster, allowing them to breed faster, bite more frequently and expand into formerly unsuitable habitats.
There are many reasons that malaria is so persistent in Africa. Four of them are poverty, human movement, resistance and climate change.
Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Le premier vaccin contre le paludisme, Mosquirix, a été approuvé par l'OMS en 2021. Brian Ongoro. AFP via Getty Images.
For a malaria vaccine to have an impact, health promotion is key. Awareness campaigns must address safety concerns and emphasise expected positive impacts.
It is estimated that half of world’s population is at risk of being infected by an arbovirus.
The spread of this urban malaria vector species threatens the gains made against malaria and the achievement of malaria elimination.
Repeated resurgences of SARS-CoV-2 transmission are expected in the years to come.
The displacement of people and overcrowding that often results from flooding provide optimal conditions for outbreaks of respiratory and gastrointestinal illness.
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Senior Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Co-head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior medical epidemiologist, Centre for Tuberculosis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Medical Scientist at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Head: Centre for Enteric Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical epidemiologist: Centre for Enteric Diseases,, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Data Manager, Center for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Principal Pathologist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Senior scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
