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The Severe Malaria Observatory: Experience. Evidence. Guidance.

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How Reagan beat severe malaria

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The global burden of malaria

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Featured resources

The five continuum of care criteria that should accompany rectal artesunate interventions: lessons learned from an implementation study in Malawi

Malaria Journal

Scaling up rectal artesunate in a community-based initiative in Zambia: Final results from MAM@Scale

Community Access to Artesunate Rectal Capsules for MALaria (CARAMAL)

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Madagascar

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Events

Day of the African Child

Zero Malaria Starts With Me campaign - 5th anniversary

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Latest news

Baku, Azerbaijan

WHO certifies Azerbaijan and Tajikistan as malaria-free

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WHO releases new guidelines on malaria in the first trimester of pregnancy

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The Severe Malaria Observatory welcomes appointment of Dr Daniel Ngamije as Director of Global Malaria Control Programme

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Pyronaridine-Artesunate strongly recommended in revised WHO Malaria Treatment Guidelines

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Publications

Effectiveness of rectal artesunate as pre-referral treatment for severe malaria in children under 5 years of age: a multi-country observational study.

The art of medicine Artesunate versus quinine: the controlled trials watershed

Pre-referral rectal artesunate: no cure for unhealthy systems

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Pre-referral rectal artesunate is no “magic bullet” in weak health systems