Dr Ray will be speaking about two studies just published in April 2025 that investigated febrile non-traumatic coma in African children. In the first paper they report that the malaria mortality rate has remained constant for 50 years, despite targeted interventions and improved treatment. In the second paper they report that whilst cerebral malaria is the leading cause of febrile coma, bacterial co-infections were detected in over 25% of cases.

More information and links to the papers are here: www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/study-shows-urgent-change-needed-to-reduce-deaths-from-malaria-and-meningitis-in-comatose-african-children