Malaria Observatory: Evidence-based Governance Project

17/02/2015

Malaria response: complex web of interrelated factors at work...

From blogger Dr Michel Odika: First of all… Worldwide, the institutional capacities to enable institutional reforms (1,2) are not a given. In concrete terms, they are typically weak (3) in countries where, by choice or by default, "laissez-faire" dominates. Even in countries with mature and well-res…

29/04/2013

MALARIA VACCINE: MYTH THAT CONCEALS REALITY…
Historically speaking, the only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Otherwise said, the theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion, is the one that must rule all observation and intervention.

This video gives a broad overview of efforts underway to create the first ever malaria vaccine (RTS,S) and its potential to help in the fight against malaria...

28/12/2012

We need help to fight this terrible disease...

A video that will give you a description about Malaria and tell you a few ways you can prevent it. . All Rights Reserved Rareware/Rare LTD © 2010 Microsoft C...

28/12/2012

WATCH NOW: Ray Chambers, U.N. Special Envoy for Malaria, and Dr. Fatoumata Nafo-Traore of Roll Back Malaria hold a press conference on the just released World Health Organization (WHO) World Malaria Report.

http://webtv.un.org/search/daily-press-briefing-and-guest-ray-chambers-special-envoy-of-the-sg-and-dr.-fatoumata-nafo-traore-roll-back-malaria-partnership-on-malaria/2041180475001?term=chambers

Noon briefing by Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

28/12/2012

Did you know:
$ 1.5 billion are spent every year globally to fight malaria!

Mosquito Fact:

A mosquito has two eyes that make up the majority of its head. Each eye is filled with little lenses so it can see from multiple directions at once. Thus, making it almost impossible to swat that dreaded mosquito.

28/12/2012

Did you know...?
Malaria causes 400,000 pregnant women to suffer from severe anaemia each year, and leads to the deaths of 200,000 newborn babies...

New research published in the British science journal The Lancet shows malaria kills twice as many people as previously thought. The report states 1.2 millio...

21/03/2012

Multisectoral response to malaria

19/12/2011

Timely Public Health Intelligence...
FACTS ARE STUBBORN: "Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say" (W.H. AUDEN, poet).
POLICIES AND STRATEGIES ARE PLIABLE: "There is no method but to be intelligent" (Thomas ELIOT, poet and dramatist).
Doctor Michel ODIKA

19/12/2011

Advocacy for a mutual reinforcement between field-based innovations and policy-making processes...
Doctor Michel ODIKA (Project coordinator)

1 Financing the response to malaria Doctor Michel ODIKA (Congo-Brazzaville) For the most part, the management of...

19/12/2011

Focus on the Millenium Development Goals (Michel ODIKA, World Bank, Washington D.C., 2011).

KEY MESSAGE: Malaria is a development challenge of the highest priority (Millenium Development Goals, New York, September 2000).

MALARIA CONTROL: BRIDGE TO THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS… In many regards, malaria is a development issue of the highest priority. Otherwise said, success, or progress, in controlling this poverty-related disease suggests much more attention being paid to reaching most of the Millenium Development...

19/12/2011

MDGs-based Perspectives for Africa (Michel ODIKA, World Bank, Washington D.C., 2011).

KEY MESSAGE: Malaria is a development issue as significant as any confronting the world (Millenium Development Goals, New York, September 2000).

CAUSE FOR CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM... This is the sort of news we all need. In concrete terms, Congo-Brazzaville, malaria-endemic country (Central Africa), is on track to establish the world’s first “Malaria Observatory” (1).

19/12/2011

MDGs-based Process for Progress (Michel ODIKA, Harvard School of Public Health, 2011).

KEY MESSAGE: The response to malaria critically requires governance and leadership reforms focused on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs, New York, September 2000).

Malaria Response: Timely Public Health Intelligence... Today, malaria requires innovative approaches, comprehensive policies, evidence-based strategies, coordinated efforts and, not least, accountability for tracking progress (7) on key fronts - e.g. hygiene, sanitation, prevention, care and researc...