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What is malariacontrol.net?
The malariacontrol.net project is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Click here for more information. The project does the following simulations and more:
Characteristics of individual P. falciparum infections. A model for use in predicting the population impact of a malaria intervention strategy must embed within it a relevant description of the course of individual infections.
Short-term effects on individuals. Drug treatments and vaccines may have effects on outcomes that are more complex than the effects on primary infections in the non-immune host.
Long-term effects individual impact. The introduction of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for malaria control has been accompanied by extensive debate about possible long-term effects. Related issues arise with regard to vaccines.
Interdependence of hosts. An epidemiologic model for the effects of an intervention program must consider the dependence between events in different individuals.
Structure of the malaria models used by MalariaControl.net. Swiss Tropical Institute has developed new models to make quantitative predictions of the potential impact of vaccination against P. falciparum malaria.
Strategy of epidemiologic modeling The models need to simulate the processes that may be affected by vaccination, and also to capture the relationships between these processes and outcomes of public health importance. For our model we use as input the seasonal pattern of transmission, and make predictions of the consequent infection rate of humans. We then consider how this relationship may be modified by naturally acquired immunity, or by vaccination.
To learn more and find out what other simulations they use, click here
Why join this project?
• Malaria has to go as part of the transition to a Resource Based Economy. It is a growing threat that will continue to complicate things as we progress
• Malaria causes poverty, hunger, and other social maladies we are focused on eliminating. This is one cause we don't have to wait for to eliminate, help us eliminate it now!
• On September 25, 2008, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership unveiled the Global Malaria Action Plan (GMAP), in which a series of measures were proposed to eliminate malaria as a global public health concern by 2015, eliminate all malaria transmission within 8–10 countries by the same deadline, and build towards its eventual global eradication. Joining this project will help towards this goal. By joining this project we help bring this goal much closer to reality! Let's put Malaria in the history books like we have already done with smallpox!
• Eradicating malaria from the globe population will save massive amounts of resources which are currently used to treat the disease, just like the resourses that have been saved from the eradication of smallpox
• Malaria kills around one million people every year, most of these are children. Help us to reduce the number of deaths and reduce the number of people becoming infected with malaria!
• We speed up research in finding the best ways to control Malaria
How to join the Project!
Download BOINC using one of the above links. Once you have installed BOINC, attach to the project malariacontrol.net, then Join The Zeitgeist Movement team on malariacontrol.net by clicking this link and select Join this team! (Note you must be logged in on their website to join the team). You can add more than one computer to your member account. Finally you will be helping us reach the goals of 25,000 active members on the team and helping get the team to number one on team ranking!
If you need help installing BOINC and attaching to this specific project, follow these instructions here, or watch this video: Video Pending