"malaria" blog posts
An update on our malaria work for World Malaria Day 2024
We’re using World Malaria Day to highlight our new part in the world’s ongoing efforts to eradicate malaria.
Posted on: 25 April 2024
Invest, Innovate and Implement – How LONGEVITY can help deliver ZERO malaria
World Malaria Day was established to provide education and understanding of malaria. Each year the Centre of Excellence for Long-acting Therapeutics (CELT) takes this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to revolutionising malaria prevention and control to reduce the malaria burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The theme this year is “Time to deliver zero malaria: invest, innovate, implement” – Three aspects that are critical to our strategy to reduce the malaria burden.
Posted on: 24 April 2023
Fighting on the front-line – Empowering communities to drive long-acting injectable innovation
The latest WHO World Malaria Report indicates that Africa carries a disproportionately high burden of malaria with 95% of malaria cases and 96% of malaria deaths occurring in this region with children under 5 accounted for about 80% of all malaria deaths on the continent. It is now more important than ever that more investment in innovation and implementation of more effective prevention strategies for low- and middle-income countries.
Posted on: 24 April 2023