Four research leading the fight against malaria in Africa were honored Wednesday with the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. is the Research and Development Center for the Ifakara Health (IHI, Tanzania), the Research and Training Center for Malaria (MRTC, Mali) Center for Health Research Kintampo (Ghana) and the Center for Health Research Manhiza (Mozambique, headed by the English Pedro Alonso and Clara Menéndez).
The IHI has distinguished itself in recent years for their "results of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in children", according to which "anti-malaria drug given during immunization SP reduced clinical events by 60 percent, severe anemia by 50 percent and hospitalizations by 30 percent. "
The MRTC is a "pioneer in the development of technologies to detect the presence of resistant parasites (...) which helps fight malaria resistance to certain drugs ", while the Research Centre Kintampo Health, created in 1994, has" developed one of the largest regional surveillance systems.
The Center for Health Research has focused Manziha, meanwhile, on "fighting poverty-related diseases and training of human capital in low income countries to reduce morbidity and mortality in children and pregnant women.
Winners will be imposed on the preferences of the jury to the other two finalists The International Criminal Court based in The Hague, and the development NGO Oxfam.
Malaria is a disease that threatens 40 percent of the population world, especially Africa, where a child dies under age 5 every 30 seconds.
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