The Malaria Podcast

It sounds like something you read in a Dean Koontz novel, but in Entebbe, Uganda, scientists like Krystal Byrungi are able to genetically modify the genes of the malaria causing mosquito. They are able to do this because they say that if the population of the malaria causing mosquito can be drastically reduced, the transmission of the disease can be reduced too. A drug to treat Malaria (Chloroquin...

In Boston, a fourth year PhD candidate at Harvard University in a race to make a drug the malaria parasite can't resist. Important, as resistance is historically a nagging issue with malaria treatments. In Osun state, Nigeria, a post doctoral researcher mapping the parasite's genome to find out why in one region malaria drugs work, in another, they don't. In Entebbe, Uganda, an entomol...

In the first episode of The Malaria Podcast, host Olivia Ndubuisi traces the rise and fall of arguably the most important drug in the history of malaria treatment: Chloroquine. Hear from the scientists who understand what happened, to regular people who have concerns about the drug that replaced it. Adaugo Adebimpe, who had malaria four times in a nine-month pregnancy. Katelem Ogbulijah, whose own...

From Lagos to Kampala, and Columbia University to Harvard, how do we bring the people who get malaria regularly together with those racing to eliminate it?    Listen to The Malaria Podcast on a journey through the past, present, and future of efforts to rid the world of one of its oldest diseases.    Three episodes, with the first premiering on this year's World Malaria Day, April 25th.