Archie Cochrane Lecture 2015; 'Malaria control: past, present and future'
Malaria is the most important parasitic infection of humans. No other infectious disease has had left such an imprint on the human genome. In tropical regions approximately 2000 people, mainly children in Africa, die each day from malaria.
Medicines for malaria have been used for thousands of years and indeed due to active measures such as marsh draining and the development of residual insecticides, malaria was reduced substantially or eliminated in many areas, but in others (much of sub-Saharan Africa) there was little impact.
However the future is uncertain. Resistance to the main insecticides is rising jeopardising the efficacy of treated bed nets and resistance to the main drugs has emerged in South East Asia and is spreading.
Date:
11 June 2015, 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2015)
Venue:
Green Templeton College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HG
Venue Details:
E P Abraham Lecture Theatre,
Speaker:
Professor Nicholas J White (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Green Templeton College
Organiser contact email address:
events@gtc.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Green Templeton College events
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Anne Bowtell,
Tayma Cannon
