Satellites and statistics for predicting malaria in Madagascar
Spatial and health data are being used to monitor malaria in local areas to target vector control measures more effectively and meet health needs
Flooding in Dakar: a challenge for public authorities
Analysis of 20 years of urban growth in Dakar has made it possible to set out various urbanisation trajectories through to 2050
New insights into Plasmodium malariae, a neglected malaria parasite
A recent field-based study provides valuable information about the biology and infection mechanisms of Plasmodium malariae, the third most widespread human malaria parasite.
Placide Mbala, a virologist committed to fighting Mpox
Placide Mbala’s involvement with the Mpox virus (formerly known as Monkeypox) began more than 15 years ago. In 2006, freshly graduated from the faculty of medicine in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC), this young doctor was already attracted to the field of research. He knocked on the door of Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, an eminent Congolese virologist and co-discoverer of the Ebola virus in 1976. Their encounter was to be decisive.