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Mission Malaria

Mission Malaria. Linking Liverpool and Malawi. Malaria in Malawi. Malaria in Malawi. Eight million cases of malaria in Malawi each year (2009 figures) Higher incidences of malaria at the shores of Lake Malawi than inland 100% of the Malawian population are at risk of malaria

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Mission Malaria

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  1. Mission Malaria Linking Liverpool and Malawi Supported by Wellcome Trust

  2. Malaria in Malawi Supported by Wellcome Trust

  3. Malaria in Malawi • Eight million cases of malaria in Malawi each year (2009 figures) • Higher incidences of malaria at the shores of Lake Malawi than inland • 100% of the Malawian population are at risk of malaria • 50% of school-age children are infected Supported by Wellcome Trust

  4. Malaria in Malawi Supported by Wellcome Trust

  5. Malaria in Malawi • Why should we care about malaria in Liverpool? • Why do we know so much in Liverpool about malaria and its treatment? Supported by Wellcome Trust

  6. Malaria research in Liverpool • Liverpool is a port city • Immigration in the nineteenth Century meant tropical diseases were brought into the city • Overcrowding and poor sanitation led diseases to spread through the population Supported by Wellcome Trust

  7. Malaria research in Liverpool Supported by Wellcome Trust

  8. Malaria research in Liverpool Supported by Wellcome Trust

  9. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Supported by Wellcome Trust

  10. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine • Founded in 1898 by Sir Alfred Lewis Jones • Inaugurated as the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases by Lord Joseph Lister • Ronald Ross, one of LSTM’s first teachers, won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1902 for discovering that malaria is carried and spread by mosquitoes • LSTM scientists also developed the first drugs for treating malaria Supported by Wellcome Trust

  11. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Ronald Ross Supported by Wellcome Trust

  12. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust • Set up in 1995 by LSTM, the University of Liverpool, Wellcome Trust and the University of Malawi College of Medicine • Based in Blantyre, Malawi • Allows British and Malawian researchers to conduct biomedical research and provides research training for scientists from Malawi and overseas • At least three Liverpool students move to Malawi each year to conduct research into tropical medicine Supported by Wellcome Trust

  13. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Supported by Wellcome Trust

  14. Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Supported by Wellcome Trust

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