MIM/TDR Task Force on Malaria RCS in Africa
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Source: <tdr-scientists@who.ch>
The MIM/TDR Task Force on Malaria Research Capability Strengthening in
Africa met after the African Malaria Conference in Durban to review a
second round of proposals. Forty-three new projects were considered
representing research groups in 12 African countries, 8 European and
the USA. As in 1998, the most popular topics were chemotherapy and drug
resistance, parasite biology and diversity, vector control studies,
evaluation of natural products as antimalarials and insecticides, and
evaluation of control strategies. The proposals were reviewed on a com-
petitive basis, considering the scientific merit and capacity building
objectives. Four new proposals and 2 project development grants were
recommended for funding, including 3 PhD and 5 MSc students. Twelve out
of the 15 ongoing grants were renewed.
The new approved projects to join the MIM/TDR network are:
Akogbeto MC. - Network to study factors conditioning evolution of
pyrethroid resistance in Anopheles gambiae s.l..- Organisation de
Coordination de la Cooperation pour la Lutte contre les Grandes En-
demies (OCCGE), Cotonou, Benin
Hassanali A. - R&D partnership in bioprospecting for antimalarial,
mosquito repellent & insecticide plants in East Africa. International
Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya.
Oketch-Rabah H.A. - Research and development of new botanical
antimalarial drugs in East Africa. University of Nairobi, Kenya
Sanogo E - Relation between malaria transmission intensity and clinical
malaria, immune response and plasmodic index. Centre National de Lutte
Contre le Paludisme (CNLP), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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