UP EXPERT OPINION: World Malaria Day 2023: How leadership, innovation, investments can contribute to eliminating malaria

Posted on April 25, 2023

UP malaria experts, Professor Tiaan de Jager and Dr Taneshka Kruger from UP's Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control shed light on ways to eliminate malaria in light of World Malaria Day today, 25 May 2023.

Keeping cattle safe from parasites can help protect us from malaria

Posted on April 24, 2023

Malaria mosquitoes are killed when they feed on livestock treated with anti-parasitic drugs.

UP-led study finds aloe plant could impede life cycle of malaria-carrying parasite

Posted on February 09, 2023

Experts at the University of Pretoria (UP) are a step closer to finding a drug that could prevent transmission of the malaria-carrying parasite Plasmodium falciparum by thwarting its life cycle.

SADC Malaria Day: ‘One of the best tools in the fight against malaria is awareness creation’ – UP experts

Posted on November 06, 2022

“Malaria elimination in the SADC region by 2030 is possible,” says Dr Taneshka Kruger of UP’s Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control. “But it will require regional collaboration and cooperation.”

UP ISMC researchers share their research at the 2022 H3D symposium

Posted on October 27, 2022

Malaria remains a serious public health concern and challenges such as malaria parasite drug or antimalarial resistance is impacting heavily on the goal to eliminate the disease.

Women driving and benefitting from malaria leadership course

Posted on August 30, 2022

Women are considered the backbone for a progressing nation.

UP ISMC students to showcase their malaria research at annual Malaria Research Conference

Posted on July 21, 2022

Despite being fully preventable and treatable, malaria remains a challenging and very complex disease to eliminate.

M2PL Autumn graduations

Posted on May 20, 2022

It is a pleasure to announce that M2PL has graduated 17 students in the Autumn graduations.