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Status update – December 2011

It’s been a very long time since we last posted an update on the progress we make with your contribution, I apologize for this.

The results and findings of the project have been reported to the scientific community at a number of international conferences by members of our research group, including the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, the Open Knowledge Conference, and the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. At this time, a delegation is presenting the most recent results at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

One more scientific article – on the potential of case management to prevent re-establishment of malaria in areas where it has been eliminated – has just been accepted for publication. Please find a link to this on the publication list at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#malariacontrol.net if you want to learn more.

Finally, we are planning for an upgrade of the server hardware to host this project. Our current server has been running very reliably for more than four years, but recently we are approaching a capacity limit. Maintenance and monitoring becomes tedious, and we plan to migrate the project to new hardware in Q1 2012.

Thank you for your continued support!
Nick

Huh? Didn't know about that, but it's entirely complementary to what we do. That project is looking for new drugs (which could be very important if Artemisin resistance develops), while this project is investigating the most effective strategies for using drugs, vaccines, nets, etc. (I.e. questions like is it best to target primarily the most vulnerable — infants — or target adults too, even when they don't show symptoms, since adults are also carriers? Is it more sensible to target first areas with extremely high malaria transmission (where even if infection rates are massively reduced, children will still get infected), or areas with much lower burdens of the disease?)

To give a very bad analogy, both technology (weaponry) and strategy are important.

Thread moved to website forum where website problems go.

See this thread https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=440#2603

The database problem is an eroneous error, it reprots that even if you get results. Most likely your chocie jsut didn't match anything in the last 30 days whcih is the default to search, if you want more, use the advanced search.

BTW, while you update the components of your new model, could you maybe take a look on the graphics shown in BOINC, too? After the BOINC core changed it does not work since, as described and discussed already here:

https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=545

Maybe if you can spare some time, it was a nice feature.