27 October 2015
The first feature in a new multimedia series exhibited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explores the introduction of the vaccine against malaria in Africa.
After the past 15 years, malaria infections have halved across Africa, yet in 2013 more than 3 billion people remained at risk of the disease globally. This year, the first vaccine against malaria – RTS,S -completed clinical trials and showed some level of protection, but will it be enough?
The journalist Meera Senthilingam investigates where a vaccine will fit into the current fight against malaria and explores what´s left to tackle the disease once and for all. See the full project at the website of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Articles about Malaria already published in HCS-Manguinhos:
Cueto, Marcos. La “cultura de la sobrevivencia” y la salud pública internacional en América Latina: la Guerra Fría y la erradicación de enfermedades a mediados del siglo XX. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.255-273. ISSN 0104-5970
Silva, Renato da and Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assunção. The Juscelino Kubitschek government and the Brazilian Malaria Control and Eradication Working Group: collaboration and conflicts in Brazilian and international health agenda, 1958-1961. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.95-114. ISSN 0104-5970
Nussenzweig, Ruth Sonntag. Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.559-564. ISSN 0104-5970
Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War: the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.431-470. ISSN 0104-5970
Estrada Orrego, Victoria and Márquez Valderrama, Jorge. Etiología parasitaria y obstáculos epistemológicos: el caso de la malaria en Colombia. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970
