Malaria Control Program – In the News

July 11, 2011
Human Swallows Pill. Mosquito Bites Human. Mosquito Dies.
Published July 11, 2011, by The New York Times.
Scientists have proposed an intriguing new way to fight malaria: turning people into human time bombs for mosquitoes.

May 14, 2010
Elimination Meets Reality in Hispaniola (Requires subscription)
This article was published May 14, 2010, by Science magazine.
There is absolutely no reason for malaria to persist on the island of Hispaniola, says Donald Hopkins, longtime disease fi ghter and vice president for health programs at the Carter Center in Atlanta. All the other islands in the Caribbean have rid themselves of this mosquito-borne disease. And the Dominican Republic (D.R.), which shares the island with Haiti, has driven cases to remarkably low levels.
Related: Watch the video – Two Countries, Two Diseases, One Island >

May 14, 2010
Shrinking the Malaria Map From the Outside In (Requires Subscription)
This article was published May 14, 2010, by Science magazine.
Richard Feachem wants to "shrink the malaria map." By that, he and his Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), mean wiping out malaria at its "natural margins"—those countries on the edge of malaria transmission where the disease has just a tentative foothold—and working inward. It's going for the "low-hanging fruit," he says. "It's a no-brainer."

March 30, 2010
A Project for Haiti: The Eradication of Two Diseases
This letter to the editor of the New York Times by Carter Center Vice President for Health Programs Dr. Donald R. Hopkins was published March 30, 2010, in response to the March 28, 2010 editorial "Making Haiti Whole."
Two projects that the donors conference on Haiti should consider this week are the binational plan that Haiti and the Dominican Republic announced last October to eliminate malaria by 2020, and the plan that Haiti announced simultaneously to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) by 2020 (the Dominican Republic expects to eliminate lymphatic filariasis this year).

Jan. 5, 2010
Haiti, Dominican Republic Combine Efforts to Eradicate Malaria
World Focus video report on the fight against malaria in Hispaniola:  a new cooperative effort between the two countries and U.S. President Jimmy Carter to eradicate the disease.  Distributed to PBS stations nationwide.

April 24, 2009
Africa: Adopting an Integrated Approach to Malaria Control
Some public health workers say dealing effectively with malaria requires an integrated approach. As an example of this, the Carter Center used the same community-based networks already established for Ethiopia's river blindness and trachoma control programs to distribute treated bed nets. Dr. Donald Hopkins, vice president of health programs for the Carter Cente,r discusses this and other issues with AllAfrica's Cindy Shiner.

Dec. 16, 2008
Haiti and Dominican Republic Urged to Fight Mosquito Illnesses Together
Published in the Dec. 16, 2008, edition of the New York Times.
The Carter Center has called for a joint effort to eliminate two mosquito-borne diseases, malaria and lymphatic filariasis, from their last foothold in the Caribbean: the island of Hispaniola.

March 6, 2008
The Carter Center Malaria Program Celebrates Successes in Ethiopia
After launching its malaria program in 2006, The Carter Center moved quickly to supply a shortfall of 3 million LLINs, requested by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to help reach Ethiopia's goal of 20 million LLINs to cover all households in malarious areas by mid-2007.

Dec. 7, 2007
Did They Really Say …Eradication?
Published Dec. 7, 2007, by Science magazine, Vol. 318 no. 5856 pp. 1544-1545.
When Bill and Melinda Gates had finished their back-to–back speeches, many researchers could barely believe what they had just heard. At a meeting hosted by their charitable foundation in their hometown, the couple had uttered the long-forgotten e-word, calling for a sweeping new plan to eradicate malaria. Full text (PDF) >

July 17, 2007
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Discusses Malaria During Online Smithsonian Chat
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter participated in a live online chat June 28, 2007, to discuss malaria and the article "The Ethiopia Campaign - Jimmy Carter Takes on Malaria," featured in the June 2007 issue of Smithsonian magazine.

June 1, 2007
The Ethiopia Campaign (PDF)
Published in Smithsonian Magazine.
Jimmy Carter's 82 years had diminished neither his trademark smile, which could still disarm skeptics at 20 paces, nor his enthusiasm for the long chance, which had propelled this obscure peanut farmer to national prominence in the first place. That quixotic spirit took him this past February to an impoverished corner of Ethiopia, where he would announce his most audacious crusade yet: to eliminate malaria, an elusive and ever-changing killer, from this ancient African nation of 75 million people.

Feb. 20, 2007
New York Times Feature: Let's Start a War, One We Can Win
They were two old men, one arriving by motorcade with bodyguards and the other groping blindly as he shuffled on a footpath with a stick, but for a moment the orbits of Jimmy Carter and Mekonnen Leka intersected on this remote battlefield in southern Ethiopia.

March 22, 2005
New York Times Feature: Battling Insects, Parasites and Politics (PDF)
By Donald G. McNeil, Jr., part of  the "Cases Without Borders" series, this feature article examines how mosquito netting treated with insecticide is aiding the battle against lymphatic filariasis.