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Medicines for Malaria Venture

The Swiss Malaria Group members are operating in almost all malaria endemic countries. With their commitment they are contributing to the global fight against malaria. For more information on our members, please go to the member's website by clicking on the member's logo.

Project 1

Making injectable and rectal artesunate available to vulnerable populations to address severe malaria (--> reduction in deaths of young children with severe malaria from 8% to < 0.5%)

Countries

zambia nigeria

Impact

5 districts, 74% of their population (ca. 54,000) 225 Community Health Volunteers Population covered aimed to be scaled up to 268,800

Duration

2010 - ongoing

Activity

Treatment

Project 2

Supporting development of a key easy-to-administer and long-protective antimalarial - dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (Euroartesim).

Countries

indonesia mozambique tanzania zambia

Duration

Ongoing

Activity

Treatment

Project 3

Moving towards the elimination of P. vivax malaria - tafenoquine.

Countries

brazil ethiopia thailand india peru colombia myanmar vietnam laos cambodia

Duration

5-year roll-out plan for all countries

Activity

Treatment

Project 4

Pyramax, the newest ACT combination approved by a stringent regulatory authority.

Countries

Impact

8,000 (projected), 5,700 until Sept 2018

Duration

3 year CANTAM study

Activity

Treatment

Project 6

Supporting malaria elimination in Papua New Guinea.

Countries

papua-new-guinea

Impact

21,000 (population living in Lihir) 5,000 cases of malaria in 2015

Duration

2011 - ongoing

Activity

Treatment