malaria

Illustration of red blood cells affected by sickle cell disease.

How Sickle Cell Disease and Malaria Defined Evolution

Anopheles dirus; main vector in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Infectious Diseases

Fighting the ‘Million-Murdering’ Mosquito: Lessons from the Pandemic

Mosquito control volunteers in Senegal visit members of their community to count sleeping places for distribution of mosquito nets. Courtesy, President's Malaria Initiative, 2012. Image: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

It’s Time for African Youth to Advance the Fight against Malaria

Principal investigator Steve Lindsay (left), Medical Detection Dogs CEO Claire Guest and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor James Logan share a moment with the remarkable sniffers. (Image: Durham University/Medical Detection Dogs/LSHTM)

Malaria Dogs

A worker with the PHE-Ethiopia Consortium, right, shares information with a schoolteacher in the rural Bale-Eco region.

The Spread of Quality Information in the Era of ‘Fake News’

Mohammed, suffering from malaria, recovers at a Burundian run clinic in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Peril and Promise: Fighting Malaria and Drug Resistance

Woman working in laboratory. Still from MalariaX Trailer

New 'MalariaX' Course Brings Malaria Education into Focus

An minimus mosquito

Dappled Wings of Death

Malaria sporozoites, the infectious form of the malaria parasite that is injected into people by mosquitoes. Image/NIAID

State of the Science: Malaria Vaccines

Adapted from WHO prevention graphic for World Malaria Day

Roll Back Mosquitoes

Daw Ngwe Tein is babysitting her 3-year-old grandchild, Blu Nay L'Paw. Blu's mother works as a Medic in the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand. ©Pearl Gan in association with Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Eijkman Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and The Wellcome Trust.

Malaria: Images from the Pacific

Globe showing Africa

Special Series: Q&As with the ASTMH Travel Awardees