MARCAD seeks to train a core group of African scientists in West and Central Africa who will be able to provide relevant answers for the control and elimination of malaria.
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Jeune médecin affecté au sud du Mali, Ogobara Doumbo participe très tôt aux travaux sur l'onchocercose, la schistosomose et la dracunculose ; à cet égard, on lui doit la certification de l'éradication de ce fléau dans de nombreux pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest.
Mais le paludisme est la parasitose la plus grave en Afrique subsaharienne avec, selon l’OMS, plus de 90% des 400 000 décès annuels recensés dans le monde.
Pour vaincre chaque obstacle, Ogobara Doumbo complète d’abord sa formation, forgeant ainsi sa capacité à fédérer les compétences, convaincre les plus hautes instances et fonder une "École". Selon cette approche, il crée avec l’entomologiste Yéya Touré le Malaria Research and Training Center MRTC à Bamako, un dispositif d’excellence doté d’un réseau de villages sentinelles.
The Noguchi Memorial Medical Research Institute (NMIMR), Accra / Ghana, hosted from 14th to 16th January 2019 The West African Network for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM) annual meeting which theme was “Empowering African Research Institutions through Capacity Building, Partnership and Networking”. The WANETAM2 program is comprised of four Nodes of Excellence created by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) to combat poverty-related diseases in Sub Saharan Africa. UCAD/MARCAD members are part of the WANETAM2 programme, they collaborate with the MRC The Gambia in the malaria work package and they have the responsibility of the Work package related to the Neglected Tropical Disease Node of Excellence, Prof Oumar Gaye is the PI and the Associate Professors Magatte Ndiaye and Doudou Sow the 2 CoPIs. The 2 CoPIs Dr Ndiaye and Dr Sow attended the meeting of WANETAM2 in Accra..
