Essential Health Links: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Malaria


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African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET)
Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria
Impact Malaria
Malaria Foundation International: Global Network Against Malaria
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MimCOM)
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: Malaria Research Resources
PREMA-EU
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Malaria
Roll Back Malaria: A Global Partnership
SA HealthInfo: Malaria
SciDev.net: Malaria
WHO: Division of Control of Tropical Diseases - Malaria
WHO Malaria Treatment Guidelines 2006
WHO/TDR Malaria Database

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African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET)   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The African Malaria Network Trust started its activities as African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network in 1995 with the primary goal of preparing Africa in planning and conducting malaria vaccine trials. Due to expanding goals in malaria interventions, AMVTN was succeeded by AMANET in 2002 to reflect a widened scope that incorporates a broad and integrated approach in the fight against malaria. The site contains news(letters), a meetings calendar and policy documents, as well as information on members, grants, projects and workshops. http://www.amanet-trust.org/

Asian Collaborative Training Network for Malaria  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site specializes in malaria control activities in Southeast Asia. It contains an extensive news module, country-specific epidemiological profiles for Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, a plus information on training workshops, grants and projects, a calendar for meetings, and a photo gallery. The site also contains an ActMalaria information resource center that includes a regional bibliography. http://www.actmalaria.net/

Impact Malaria  (French)
This bilingual site is maintained and owned by the pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis, and the information contained on the Site "may contain direct or indirect references to products, programmes and services of the Sanofi-Aventis Group". The site stipulates that "No material from the Site may be copied, reproduced, modified, republished, uploaded, distorted, transmitted or distributed in any way, on any support, in total or in part, without Sanofi-Synthelabo Groupe's prior written consent, with the exception of one single copy of the materials which you may download on your personal computer for personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you respect all intellectual property rights and any other right which may be mentioned." However, the information "is written and validated by tropicalist experts" and the site is "intended for health-care professionals practicing in endemic areas and for general public residing in endemic areas". The site contains malaria information for both the public and healthcare professionals: news, parasitology, epidemiology, education tools, and a electronic library with scientific journal articles. http://www.impact-malaria.com

Malaria Foundation International: Global Network Against Malaria  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
MFI facilitates the development and implementation of solutions to the health, economic and social problems caused by malaria. Their website provides links to the various global networks against malaria. It also includes a directory of malaria professionals, travel advice, and a calendar of malaria conferences and events. http://www.malaria.org/

Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MimCOM)   (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
Sponsored by the U.S. National Libraries of Medicine, the Mulitlateral Initiative on Malaria is an international collaboration in scientific research against malaria. The site includes information about the programme: achievements, news, events, projects, partnerships and funding opportunities. The site contains research organization acronyms, medical reference, internet resources and database links sections and is in English and French. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/mimcomhome.html

Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: Malaria Research Resources  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains links to malaria related resources, databases, publications, discussion groups and meetings/events. It is maintained by the Multilaterial Initiative on Malaria, U.S. National Libraries of Medicine. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mimcom/meetings.html

PREMA-EU  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
PREMA-EU is a network dealing with the problem of malaria control and anaemia in pregnant women. The site includes a newsletter that can be downloaded in pdf format. Individuals can register to receive the print version of the newsletter and email updates. http://www.prema-eu.org/

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Malaria (6400+)
This PubMed search will identify all malaria related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for all subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22malaria%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20MALARIA%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Roll Back Malaria: A Global Partnership    (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
This is the website for the global initiative to halve the world’s malaria burden by 2010. It includes information on the disease, technical strategies and capacity development. The site contains links to full text articles and current news and related websites. It is available in English and French and contains a keyword search engine. The site is maintained by the World Health Organization. http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/

SA HealthInfo: Malaria   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This module contains links to information (reports, articles, newsletters) developed by the South African MRC's National Malaria Research Programme. It also contains hyperlinks to selected sources, including information for travellers to southern Africa. http://www.sahealthinfo.org/malaria/malaria.htm

SciDev.net: Malaria   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This is one of several "dossiers" developed by SciDev.net, a gateway that emphasizes news, views and information about science, technology and the developing world. Directed by an internationally based advisory panel, the dossier contains summaries of relevant news articles, policy briefs and opinion articles. It includes a combination of fulltext articles and links to the full documents elsewhere on the Internet. http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem&Dossier=23

WHO: Division of Control of Tropical Diseases - Malaria   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains information on malaria plus related websites. http://www.who.int/topics/malaria/en/

WHO Malaria Treatment Guidelines 2006   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This 266 page pdf file contains the 2006 WHO guidelines for the treatment of malaria. It contains extensive information on uncomplicated and severe malaria, clinical diagnosis, and treatment for the various strains of the disease including drug resistance to the specific drug treatment plans. The document also contains numerous appendixes that review the treatment decisions in more detail. http://www.who.int/malaria/docs/TreatmentGuidelines2006.pdf

WHO/TDR Malaria Database  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This resource is aimed at scientists working in malaria research. It contains a wide variety of information, including gene sequences, conference and course news, information on projects, a link to a malaria discussion group, and links to related malaria and parasitology sites. http://www.wehi.edu.au/MalDB-www/who.html

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Updated: 29 January 2008