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Plasmodium knowlesi is a parasite that causes malaria in humans and other primates. It is found throughout Southeast Asia, and is the most common cause of human malaria in Malaysia. Like other Plasmodium species, P. knowlesi has a life cycle that requires infection of both a mosquito and a warm-blooded host.
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates and Anopheles mosquitoes. [6] [7] [3] Human malaria causes symptoms that typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting, and headaches. [1] [8] In severe cases, it can cause jaundice, seizures, coma, or death.
Malaria prophylaxis is the preventive treatment of malaria. Several malaria vaccines are under development. For pregnant women who are living in malaria endemic areas, routine malaria chemoprevention is recommended. It improves anemia and parasite level in the blood for the pregnant women and the birthweight in their infants. [1]
World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April and recognizes global efforts to control malaria.Globally, 3.3 billion people in 106 countries are at risk of malaria. [1]
Reports of attempts to control malaria through mass treatment with antimalarial drugs date back to at least 1932. [3] In the 1950s, the WHO included mass drug administration (MDA) of antimalarial drugs as a tool for malaria eradication ‘in exceptional conditions when conventional control techniques have failed. [4]
The origin of the National Centre for Disease Control can be traced to the Central Malaria Bureau, which was established at Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India in 1909. It was renamed the Malaria Institute of India in 1938 and in 1963 renamed the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. [1]
The logo of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a collaborative, patients' needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development (R&D) organization that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, notably leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, HAT), Chagas disease, [1] malaria, filarial ...
Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium works in Africa and Asia Pacific with aims to combat malaria and neglected tropical diseases, as well as to improve child health. It is a specialist technical organization that works with governments and partners to strengthen health service delivery.