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UCSF Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI)

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20 October 2020 News Malaria stakeholders call on UK government to continue prioritizing global malaria spending On October 16, 2020, malaria stakeholders published a letter to the Government of the United Kingdom in The Times, a British national newspaper. The group of 20 signatories, comprised of malaria...
10 September 2020 Blog The UCSF DiSARM project commemorates four years of impact For the past 4 years, the DiSARM project has been focused on building spatial analysis tools to support malaria programs in southern Africa. Initially, this included building a user facing mobile and...
07 September 2020 News August 2020: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out the August issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
30 June 2020 Blog MEI congratulates the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative on fifteen years of impact The MEI would like to congratulate the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) on an incredible fifteen years of impact. Since 2005, PMI has worked with countries at the frontlines of the fight...
17 June 2020 News Pioneering the use of mediation analysis to understand the benefits of intermittent preventive malaria treatment in pregnancy Media release | SAN FRANCISCO June 17, 2020
16 June 2020 News New Project BITE aims to fight malaria with new tools to prevent mosquito bites outdoors A new consortium of partners is working to prevent malaria transmission by reducing human exposure to mosquito bites outdoors.
16 June 2020 News June 2020: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out the June issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
24 April 2020 Blog Emergencies must not derail the fight to end malaria Emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic can cause significant disruptions to health systems, interrupting the delivery of lifesaving interventions, reducing health seeking behavior, increasing illness...
24 April 2020 Blog Director’s note: Roly Gosling returns to MEI headquarters in San Francisco following two years in Namibia Dear colleagues,
24 April 2020 News World Malaria Day 2020 Edition: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out our World Malaria Day issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
23 April 2020 News First controlled trial shows how focal drug administration and vector control can be used to accelerate malaria elimination This year’s World Malaria Day, April 25th, occurs as countries around the world continue to battle the spread of COVID-19. The occasion is an important reminder that while good progress has been made...
07 April 2020 News April 2020: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out our April issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
06 April 2020 Blog MEI update on COVID-19 Countries around the world are battling the devastating spread of COVID-19. At the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), our infectious disease researchers, frontline healthcare providers,...
25 March 2020 Blog Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative Round Table focuses on malaria elimination MEI Director Roly Gosling speaking at the Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative Round Table
11 February 2020 News The MEI's top publications of 2019 Applying next-generation sequencing to track falciparum malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. This review discusses the potential role of next-generation sequencing in understanding transmission patterns,...
30 January 2020 Blog The Global Fund Allocates Funds to Address Malaria Resurgence in Venezuela On January 16, 2020, the Global Fund indicated that Venezuela will receive $19.8 million dollars for anti-malaria efforts between 2020 and 2022. The announcement followed the Global Fund’s initial...
18 November 2019 News October 2019: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out our October issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
07 September 2019 News The Lancet: Malaria can and should be eradicated within a generation, declare global health experts A future free of malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can be achieved as early as 2050, according to a new report published today by The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication.
07 June 2019 News May 2019: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out our May issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination.
31 May 2019 Blog Thailand displays leadership, progress at Malaria Week 2019 Thailand has made robust progress toward malaria elimination, including an incredible 45% decrease in cases between 2017 and 2018. On April 25, the Thai Ministry of Public Health celebrated 25...
28 May 2019 News Algeria and Argentina certified malaria-free, further shrinking malaria map Last month, Algeria and Argentina were certified malaria-free by the WHO, raising the number of countries that have received this certification to 38 worldwide. A momentous achievement for both...
25 April 2019 News Eliminating malaria in the Asia-Pacific could save 400,000 lives 25 April 2019 Bangkok (Thailand) – Increased funding is needed to eliminate malaria across 22 Asia-Pacific countries and save an estimated 400,000 lives, according to research published in a new...
11 April 2019 Blog Cross Border Malaria Initiative Round Table meeting held in Zambia On February 28th and March 1st, 2019 malaria partners joined together at the Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative Round Table meeting, hosted by the J.C. Flowers Foundation. The Isdell:...
08 April 2019 News March 2019: The Latest in Malaria Elimination Check out our March issue of The Latest in Malaria Elimination. 

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