Barriers to malaria interventions in Ghana
Matilda Aberese-Ako is a medical anthropologist and MARCAD postdoctoral researcher at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ghana. The Malaria Research Capacity Development Consortium (MARCAD) research programme is supported by the Developing Excellence, Leadership and Training in Science in Africa (DELTAS Africa). MARCAD is one of the 11 DELTAS Africa programmes. DELTAS Africa funds collaborative networks/consortia led by Africa-based scientists to amplify Africa-led development of world-class research and scientific leaders on the continent, while strengthening African institutions. DELTAS Africa is implemented through AESA (The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa), a funding, agenda setting and programme management platform created by the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and with the support of Wellcome and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Exclusif ! Pr Oumar Gaye, co-signataire de la lettre des scientifiques à la revue The Lancet : « Ce que nous reprochons à l’étude de Lancet sur la Chloroquine (…) Un protocole pour l’utilisation de la chloroquine en prévention est déposé au Sénégal »
La parution d’une analyse rétrospective remettant en question l’efficacité de la chloroquine et de son dérivé l’hydroxychloroquine dans le traitement de la Covid-19 a fait sortir une centaine de scientifiques de leur silence. À travers une lettre ouverte, ces têtes bien faites ont demandé des comptes aux auteurs de ladite « étude » publiée dans la revue anglaise The Lancet vendredi 22 mai. Parmi eux, le Pr Oumar Gaye. Ancien chef du service Parasitologie médicale de la Faculté de Médecine de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop, ce membre de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (ANSTS), qui dirige actuellement le Malaria Research Capacity Development Consortium en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre (MARCAD), a accepté pour Dakaractu, de revenir sur les raisons qui l’ont poussé à s’associer à une telle démarche. Dans le même temps, le scientifique encourage le Sénégal à maintenir son traitement basé sur l’hydroxychloroquine et révèle à votre site que ses collaborateurs ont déposé un protocole devant le comité d’éthique pour l’utilisation de la chloroquine en prévention pour les groupes à risque exposés à la COVID-19. Entretien...
ASTMH 2019, Oumar Gaye: "Malaria Elimination within a Universal Health Coverage"
In collaboration with ASTMH, Image Audiovisuals, and session presenters, MESA brings you this webcast from the 68th ASTMH annual meeting in Maryland, November 2019
Title: “Malaria Elimination within a Universal Health Coverage”
Speaker: Oumar Gaye, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal (watch the video)
Session information:
Symposium 141: African-Led Perspectives on Programmatic Challenges to Malaria Elimination
November 23, 2019, 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM, Potomac C (Ballroom Level)
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MARCAD Secretariat hosts the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)’s delegation
A delegation from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) paid a two-day visit (9th – 10th March 2020) to MARCAD’ Secretaria.
MARCAD supports the National Academy of Young Scientists of Senegal (ANJSS) for the capacity building of its members.
In line of its main objective to foster capacity building of future African scientists leaders MARCAD, supported the National Academy of Young Scientists of Senegal (ANJSS) in the organization of a workshop on Public and Community Engagement and the implementation of a personal development plan for its members. The activity organized under the auspices of the National Academy of Science and Technical of Senegal (ANSTS) took place from 20 to 21 February 2020 in Dakar.
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