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
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
Since the year 2000, a concerted campaign against malaria has led to unprecedented levels of intervention coverage across sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the effect of this control effort is vital to inform future control planning. However, the effect of malaria interventions across the varied epidemiological settings of Africa remains poorly understood owing to the absence of reliable surveillance data and the simplistic approaches underlying current disease estimates. Read More