Sentences with phrase «trials against malaria»

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

«The empirical evidence from that Nature study and numerous other local studies, including the Cochrane review of bed net trials against malaria, therefore demonstrate a consistent positive effect of bed nets across a wide range of different mosquito ecologies even when protection is partial.

Not exact matches

Tulane University researchers have developed a new drug that is effective against non-severe cases of malaria, according to results from an FDA - supervised clinical trial published in the latest issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

And because one widely discussed application is to introduce gene drive — modified mosquitoes in malaria - prone developing countries, the academies cautions against doing so until the countries involved are equipped with the expertise and infrastructure to deal with these trials.

Most other vaccine trials have tried to use the malaria parasite — rather than the body's reaction against it — to find possible targets for vaccines.

New vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and HIV are currently in field trials in the developing world.

Combining Viral Vectored and Protein - in - adjuvant Vaccines Against the Blood - stage Malaria Antigen AMA1: Report on a Phase 1a Clinical Trial.