about malaria

The focus of the SA HealthInfo Malaria content module is southern African information sources, developed by the South African MRC Malaria Research Programme in partnership with other role-players.

• Malaria in southern Africa
  This is the Malaria Research Programme of the MRC of South Africa and contains general malaria information, information about prophylaxis, treatment, case statistics, advice to travellers, risk areas;
• MARA/ARMA
  A collaborative initiative to establish an atlas of the spatial epidemiology of malaria in Africa;
• Lubombo SDI Malaria Control Programme
  A website for the malaria control programme of the Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative

• Nature Includes Studies, Review Article on Malaria (20 October 2008)
  The latest edition of the journal features a section on malaria, including a study on the genetic sequence of Plasmodium vivax, a study on the genome of P. knowlesi and a review article discussing the scientific progress aided by the discovery of malaria parasite genomes.