Expanding Access to Correct Treatment through Diagnosis
April 2018
Members of the ExactDx team visited Lodwar, Kenya to meet with government health officials, visit public health facilities and learn about malaria in the region.
We visited several government and mission clinics in Turkana Central. Hoping our fact-finding mission leads to some productive partnerships and new approaches to malaria control in this challenging setting.
Last week we welcomed Verona Liao and Assumpta Nantume to Eldoret. Both are Masters of Science in Global Health students who have joined our team in Eldoret to work on their masters theses. Assumpta will be working with our EPiTOMISE team in Homa Bay and Verona will be using innovative new techniques to try and catch outdoor resting mosquitoes in Webuye. We will post more about their adventures in the coming weeks.
I had the privilege to participate in one of the panels convened to propose research priorities for malaria elimination. Read the story in the DGHI Newsletter or go right to the malERA Refresh series published in PLoS Medicine.
We are making progress in our preparations to launch our study aimed at improving care for children with sickle cell anemia. The EPiTOMISE study will compare three malaria prevention drugs for reducing malaria morbidity, hospitalization and mortality in children with sickle cell disease. In malaria endemic areas, malaria is one of the major causes of death and severe disease in these children.
