Two new research papers published today in The Lancet show where the fight to defeat malaria is succeeding and where it has stalled. We present the most comprehensive picture to date of the Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum parasites, which cause the majority of the world’s malaria burden. Read More
Today sees the launch of the Wellcome Trust’s Data Re-Use Prize: Malaria, in collaboration with The Malaria Atlas Project. Submissions will take the form of a piece of code or analysis, plus a short narrative description of the work undertaken and how it meets the success criteria. The success criteria will include things like novelty, potential health impact, and robustness of methodology. The winning team or individual will get a cash prize of £15,000. Two runners-up will receive £5,000 each. Read More
The World Malaria Report is the World Health Organisation’s flagship malaria publication, released each year in December. It assesses global and regional malaria trends, highlights progress towards global targets, and describes opportunities and challenges in controlling and eliminating the disease. MAP produced estimates of insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN) coverage for African countries using data from … ContinuedRead More
MAP has released a package to provide users of the R programming language with a convenient API to interact with our publicly-available data holdings. Read More
Ursula Dalrymple’s new paper in Malaria Journal collates published studies on the persistence of RDT positivity post-treatment and fits a bespoke Bayesian survival model to estimate the number of days RDTs remain positive after treatment. Read More
MAP is analysing resistance levels in some of the most important malaria vector species, looking for common patterns of resistance amongst different types of insecticides. The aim of this work is to provide results which can inform resistance management strategies. Read More
Bill Gates advocated for an undiminished commitment to the fight against malaria in a speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government in April 2018. Read More
The Malaria Atlas Project has released a global map of accessibility to cities for the year 2015. This map shows the estimated travel time to the nearest city globally, and was created in collaboration with Google, the Joint Research Centre of the European Union, and the University of Twente. Read More
Although the prevalence of fever amongst African children is around 30%, only 10% of these fevers (and 28% of malaria-positive fevers) are actually directly attributable to malaria infection due to the high prevalence of non-malarial febrile illnesses. Suspected malaria cases in Africa increasingly receive a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) before antimalarials are prescribed. While this … ContinuedRead More