Overview:

Malaria, and especially malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, continues to be a disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of individuals worldwide each year.  How to combat this disease, particularly considering that the populations most severely affected are also the populations least financially capable of fighting it, has been hotly debated for many years.  The papers listed below provide a brief synopsis of the type of debate that has been conducted within the international public health community.  While some of these papers are a somewhat dated, the controversy that they address is still debated today in more or less the same terms.  It is hoped that these papers will provide an opportunity to introduce and discuss the underlying topics of pathogenesis, host/parasite interactions, immunity to parasitic infections, the dynamics of vector-borne diseases and disease intervention.

Key Objectives:

·   Demonstrate knowledge of recent technological, biochemical, and        pharmaceutical advances and analyze how these advancements can be applied to be resource-poor settings. 

·   Recognize logistical constraints in translating scientific discoveries into therapies.

·   Demonstrate knowledge of the technical, procedural, and ethical  parameters associated with conducting research in resource-poor settings.