Projecten
Safe and efficacious artemisinin-based combination treatments for African pregnant women with malaria. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Overall Goal: To identify artemisinin-based combination treatments (ACT) that can be safely and efficaciously used to treat women with malaria in their second and third trimester of pregnancy. This will be attained through the following strategies: 1. Research: To determine the safety and efficacy of 4 ACTs when administered to pregnant women during the second and the third trimester with P. falciparum infection and collect explanatory ...
Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
hypothesise that invasive An. stephensi poses a significant malaria risk in urban
settings in the Horn of Africa and that this risk can be mitigated through targeted,
multi-sectoral vector control combined with rigorous entomological surveillance. This
project brings together a multidisciplinary team of investigators with expertise ...
Inflammatie en dismetabolisme in malaria KU Leuven
Malaria is een levensbedreigende ziekte. Met meer dan 200 miljoen klinische gevallen en 400 duizend sterftegevallen per jaar is het een van de grootste gezondheidsproblemen ter wereld. In onze onderzoeksgroep leggen we de focus op malaria complicaties, welke de belangrijkste doodsoorzaken zijn bij malaria patiënten en ontstaan door een complexe interactie tussen enerzijds de parasiet zelf, en anderzijds het immuun- en vasculair systeem van de ...
EmFaVie: Bestrijding van de opkomst van fascioliasis in Noord-Vietnam Universiteit Gent
A multi-disciplinary international effort to identify clinical, molecular and social factors impacting cutaneous leishmaniasis Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
in the Mediterranean basin and declared as emerging diseases in the EU due to climate change and population
displacement. The LeiSHield-MATI consortium will for the first time investigate in an integrative fashion the complex
parasite-vector-host interplay in cutaneous leishmaniasis affecting Morrocco, Algeria, ...
Capacity strengthening and enhanced tools for evidence-based health research and control/ elimination strategies of parasitic diseases in Vietnam. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
The research capacity of the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE) will be strengthened by improving the research ...
National Institutes in Cambodia have increased capacity to generate evidence for the management of health problems and for the strengthening of the health system in Cambodia. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Our partners are the Sihanouk Hospital Centre of Hope (SHCH), the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM), the National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD Control (NCHADS), ...