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We're a big community of more than 6700 members, and it would be nice if we could get to know each other better... So tell us:
Who you are, where you work, what you work on and why you consider this important...
I'll start to kick off the introductions....
I come now to discover your website and I am very happy to have professionals with whom I can share in entomology.
Currently at The Laboratory of Integrated Management Of The National Program of Fight against Malaria in Cameroon, I have an International Masters in Medical and Veterinary Entomology from the University of Montpellier II (France) & the University of Abomey (Benin)
I am currently looking for a PhD scholarship.
I am happy to Jouint with you in Malaria World, I am intersting in the studies of Mosquito.
The Title of my PhD is
Biological and Histopathological Studies on Some Plant Extracts Against Culex quinquefasciatus in Saudi Arabia.
It showed The efficacy of pesticide (extracted from plants) affecting mosquito larvae led to utilize various kinds of plants to control mosquitoes in various parts of the world.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is distinguished of it desert environment including various kinds of plants to be utilized in extracting effective materials as pesticides that do not affect nontargeted man, animal and environment. Three plants were selected to extract materials or components from to deal with (Culicidae) (Culex quinquefasciatus); they are: Artemisia herba alba, Matricaraia chamomilla and Melia azedarach.
The methanol extract effectiveness of each tested plant has been identified in the present study alone. Treated the 3rd larval instar of Cx. quienqufasciatus using different concentrations of these extracts for periods of 24 hours and 48 hours. We studied the Possibility of deposited egg (Repellent effect) on treated surface with different concentrations of plant extracts, Possibility of female biting from treated skin with LC50, The encubation period and possibility of hatching after transfer it to treated surface with LC50 – LC95, Latent effect on some biological aspects of treated larvae,The effect of some environmental factors on the 3rd larval instar of Cx. quinquefasiatus treated with LC50 of A. herba alba, M. chamomilla and M. azedarach extracts, Histological studies on the alimentary canal of the Cx. quinquefasciatus of the 3rd larval instar depending on the optical (light) microscope and Electron microscope and the Histophathological study of the internal canal of Cx. quinquefasiatus when it is the 3rd larval instar larvae treated with herbal extracts: A. herba alba, M. chamomilla and M. azedarach through optical microscope.
I am relatively new to malaria and certainly to Malaria World. I have been an individual donor to international development organizations for about 30 years. My engagement during that time was rather similar to the approach advocated by GivingWhatWeCan.org. I am exploring a different approach to philanthropy by focusing on a specific problem and a defined region. My interest now is in malaria in western Kenya.
I am experimenting with an alternative form of philanthropy that is more active and participatory. In particular, I have been exploring what can be accomplished through North/South dyadic partnerships. I have found a partner in western Kenya, someone who lives in a town not far from areas of endemic malaria. We communicate by email and phone. Together, we are trying to learn as much as we can about the effort to provide universal bed net coverage in our area of western Kenya. We will attempt to support and supplement those efforts as creatively and usefully as possible..
By exposing myself to direct feedback, especially from individuals who live in western Kenya, I believe that over time I will acquire a more sophisticated appreciation for the challenges of fighting malaria, at least in this particular area of the world. I am skeptical about the goal of some organizations (such as Malaria No More) to eliminate deaths from malaria worldwide by 2015. Is that really feasible? However, I think by working with a few others in a collective effort, we might have a chance of eliminating deaths from malaria in one small region of western Kenya. If not, at least I will know more about the region and what doesn't work than if I was simply a donor to an anti-malaria organization. I already feel a much closer connection to this area of western Kenya than I did to any other region of the world during the 30 years that I was a donor and only a donor to nonprofit organizations.
Cliff
Hi Cliff,
I really like your new approach to supporting malaria control, in western Kenya. And I share your skepticism about zero deaths in 2015, we need to bite off more reasonable sized goals, like substantial decreases in the number of deaths.
Having lived, travelled and camped out in Africa for about 50 years, I want to make a suggestion about your bednet program. At certain times of year, especially when it is hot and humid, bednets become an aggravation. They block the flow of cooling breezes at night. In Sudan where I lived for 5 years, people would simply go outside in the yard and sleep under the stars during those humid nights. Of course that is just what our friend the mosquito is looking for.
So, looking for ways to increase air circulation is something to think about, if you want folks to stay under the bednets. You might cut additional 'window' openings at bed level in sleeping rooms. But that depends very much on local housing construction.
Another way to handle this is to mosquito-proof the sleeping areas, so that bednets are not needed on the individual level. Again this depends on local housing construction.
I think our venerable leader Bart Knols sponsored a blog a few years ago on improved architecture in malaria areas. You might get some ideas from him, too.
Best wishes for your project in Kenya. When you say Western Kenya, is that near Lake Victoria?
Bill
My name is Boris Pufong and I am the founder of clinique veritas (www.cliniqueveritas.com), a supplier and distributor of rapid tests and point of care test poducts in Cameroon, and the west and central African region.
After studying Pharmacology and obtaining a masters in Immunoloy, I pursued an MBA at Manchester Business School UK, I have worked with various global biotechnology firms and pharmaceutical companies including GSK in the UK.
I realised in Cameroon and most African countries, there is large ratio of patient to doctor (1:40,000 in Cameroon) which could result in slow disgnosis. Having rapid tests and point of care test products (which deliver results in minutes) in these markets would not only speed up diagnosis and free up resources but will also enhance communication between patients and doctors as well as speed up treatment.
Clinique Veritas, also holds educative seminars in these countries and place doctors in hospitals where there can advance their knowledge of infectious diseases and be contributory in promoting excellence in healthcare in Africa.
Our products cover a wide range of diagnosis for diseases predominant in the aforementioned region. These include, malaria, cholera, typhoid, diabetes, HIV, to name a few.
Dear Malariaworld subscribers.
My name is Willem van Prooijen. I have a company named MeduProf-S (Sustainable Medical Education for Professionals) We have training projects/programs all over Africa, Middle East and the Carribean. Since 15 years I am active in the following countries: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Bonaire, China and South Africa.
Three reasons to be interested in Malariaword:
In our involvement in African Hospitals we face the impact Malaria has on the mortality rate.
We are surprised by the practical approach of Malariaworld and we are ready to support Malariaworld through our network with prevention and training in the future.
Sending our own staff mainly to Malaria areas we are confronted with the danger of the disease ourselves.
That is why I decided to be a boardmember of the Dutch Malaria Foundation.
I am happy to read about the initiative you and your colleagues are doing in Africa. My reasons for writing are thus; what areas of training is meduprof-s providing within Africa, and were there specific reasons for choosing the afrorementioned countries and leave out the likes of Cameroon etc.
Does your organisation hold seminars on malaria and how best can Clinique Veritas (though in its development stage) help promote your course in addition to that of malariaworld.
As a not-for profit company our main aim is to aid in the reduction of infectious diseases fatalities (infant especially) by promoting rapid diagnostic solutions and education in urban and rural regions.
bpufong@cliniqueveritas.com
Hello Everyone, I'm Rahul and doing my Phd in Malaria vaccine in Haffkine Institute, Mumbai. I would like to share with u all about the new findings in malaria all over the world. So trying to keep in contact with everyone.. thanking you..
I am Adan, a research lab technologist working with KEMRI/WELLCOME TRUST in kilifi,kenya.
Hello, my name is Inga (full name = ingeborg van Schayk) and I am the founder of MalariaWorld. I am a social scientist specialized in adult education and communication and have worked 10+ years in malaria endemic countries, mostly Africa + some yrs in Latin America. I have experience in a broad range of organizations: community work, NGO's, internat. research organisations, ministry and UN. I have worked with all sorts of people such as street-youth, illiterates, maasai, women groups, trainers, ministers, policy-makers, scientists, bureaucrats etc. etc. The biggest challenge of all still is being a good wife and a mother of 2.
I started what has become MalariaWorld in Western Kenya (2001) as part of a communications project of MIM, funded by the US National Library of Medicine. The aim was to centralize published malaria information and send that around in one e-mail so that everyone else could focus on their work rather than spending hrs and hrs searching for the same information.
I am dedicated to make MalariaWorld the best information portal on malaria and I am proud of you and all our other subscribers who make this initiative a success.
Currently I reside in The Netherlands where I am co-directing K&S Consulting since 2007.
About 50 years ago I started working as a public health engineer in the tropical Americas and Africa on engineering and environmental methods for control of malaria, Snail Fever (aka schistosomiasis) and other tropical diseases. Along the way I helped develop the final steps in control of Snail Fever in Puerto Rico, then went to central Sudan where I worked on malaria control as well. I have worked in 17 African countries, as well as several others in Arabia, Asia and the Americas. Also I have published a couple of books and about 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. My first scientific article was published in Science in 1964 on Ecological design of irrigation canals for snail control, volume 145, number 3638, pages 1324-1326. My most recent article on malaria control in Angola was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. You can Google it at - doi:10.2471/BLT.08.052514.
Having started with WHO in 1963 I've been on various WHO Expert Committees on tropical diseases since, and worked for them in Ghana, Pakistan, Yemen and other countries of their Eastern Mediterranean Region.
Another of my main activities has been the conduct of health and environmental impact assessments on large water and energy projects in the tropics. I've worked on Akosombo Dam in Ghana, Manantali and Diama Dams in Senegal, Mauritania and Mali, on Merowe Dam in the Sudan, Bujagali Dam on the upper Nile in Uganda, Jubba River Dam in Somalia, and several small hydrolelectric dams in the Dominican Republic.
In 2005 I was asked by USAID to start their first project in Angola under the new US Presidential Malaria Initiative. I was so upset by the bumbling approach I found there, and the lack of substance in the UN and WHO malaria programs in the Africa Region, that I was compelled to write "A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa" to try to give them some guidelines for sustainable strategies in Africa. I have just published this as Blue Nile Monograph One with Boston Harbor Publishers, and have some hope that I can influence the people in Washington DC and Geneva to get their act in order. I am not sure, however. Your suggestions and help would be appreciated.
As my parting shot, I think that eradication of malaria in Africa, and a practical vaccine against malaria in our lifetime, are fantasies and chimeras.
But still hoping,
Dear Bart
The fight against malaria remain a challenge for all of us.
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We are Bestnet Europe LTD representative in the west and central africa and the only distributor of the long lasting bed net "NETPROTECT".
For more details do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
AMETH A SY
SALES MANAGER
Email: asy@soni.sn
Hi everyone, my name is Funmi, I live and work in Nigeria, Africa. I have been exposed to several malaria infections from childhood . Now as a parasitologist my focus has been on the control of malaria and its limitation in Nigeria. I concluded my PhD study a couple of years ago which was an Epidemiological study of malaria in pregnancy in Nigeria. I am currently seeking for a postdoc opportunity in malaria epidemiology, control strategies or assessment of impact of various malaria control tools such as Longlasting Insecticide Treated Nets(LLITN )and Intermittent Preventive Treatment( IPT)or Indoor Residual Spray (IRS).
My name is Vivek... and I am involved in the manufacture of RDTs for Malaria. I am based in Daman, India. We already manufacture one of the best RDTs available for Malaria. My goal is in ensuring the latest technology is available for early diagnosis of Malaria. The technology should be viable and usable by anybody, anywhere.
Dear Varma,*
I am from Senegal and intrested on your product (tdr)
Whitch brand it is ?
Can we have your contact please.
Best regards
AMETH SY
Hi, my name is Ricardo Ataide and I'm a portuguese PhD student. I'm enrolled at the GABBA program in Portugal (gabba.up.pt) and I'm performing my lab work at the Dept of Medicine of the University of Melbourne in Prof Stephen Rogerson's malaria Lab. I'm interested in the immune responses that women in their first pregnancies mount against the new parasite variant that binds to their placental tissue. My work focuses on monocytes and their interactions. This is important to understand what are the correct type of responses we want a vaccine to elicit and also to find ways to prevent or minimize the deleterious effects of placental malaria in these women and their offspring.
Who: Tullu Bukhari
Where: The Netherlands
What: Larval control
Why: becuause I see larval control as an inevitable approach for malaria eradication.
Hello everyone. I'm Bart, a mosquito man by training, and I have spent 11 years of my life in East and Southern Africa researching tsetse flies and malaria mosquitoes. Now I'm back in The Netherlands, and as you know, working hard to make MalariaWorld a success... We aim to launch DengueWorld in the middle of this year... You can contact me any time with questions about MalariaWorld (see the about us page for details). I hope to one day move into an area somewhere on the planet and truly show that eradication of malaria or dengue is feasible using strategies of the past...
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Hi, my name is Graham Small. I have a PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and postdoctoral research experience at Cardiff University in pesticide resistance. I have over 25 years experience in resistance diagnosis, characterisation and monitoring. I am currently Technical Director at i2LResearch Ltd, a GLP and GEP certified contract research company providing product development, product testing and consultancy services to the pest control industry worldwide.
I've joined MalariaWorld to help keep myself up to date with current research in mosquito vector control and to engage in discussions on where mosquito vector control (in particular insecticide resistance management) is headed.