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Investigación, Eliminación de la malaria

A Broad View of Ivermectin for Malaria from Cattle to Policy

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Fecha
06/02/2018
Hora
11.00 h
Lugar
Aula 6, Aula Magna, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut (Campus Clínic), UB
(Casanova, 143) Barcelona
Ponentes
Carlos Chaccour & Regina Rabinovich (ISGlobal)

Ivermectin may contribute to reducing transmission of vector-borne diseases, as it kills arthropods feeding on a treated individual, including Anopheles mosquitoes. This has led scientists to consider mass drug administration (MDA) with this anti-parasitic medicine as a potentially powerful tool to reduce malaria transmission. It was published on The Malaria Journal, as a series of three papers authored by experts from ISGlobal, last April.

The researchers Carlos Chaccour and Regina Rabinovich have done an extensive evidence-based review supporting the use of ivermectin as a complement to vector control tools, and they will share these findings on this extra seminar, on 8 February.