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health worker selling bednets

Getting the right message across on malaria

Although research on malaria needs greater support, the fight against the disease will not be won in the laboratory but with tools in the field, many of which already exist. Improved techniques are needed to communicate this reality to decision-makers.

7 November 2005 | EN

Vaccines vs. bednets: the malaria dilemma

There are few clearer examples of the need to combine high-tech solutions to development issues with the reality of problems as experienced and perceived on the ground than the challenge of designing an international strategy to combat malaria.

13 December 2004 | EN

Blocking the good news on malaria

The successful sequencing of two malaria-related genomes has been virtually ignored by the African media. Nothing better indicates the need to enhance science communication on the continent.

7 October 2002 | EN

Colombia puts its scientific credibility on the line

The Colombian immunologist Manuel Patarroyo is celebrating the opening of a new institute and continues to promise to produce an effective malaria vaccine. More than one man's scientific reputation is at stake.

13 May 2002 | EN