Thursday, September 11th, 2014
UC San Francisco (UCSF) is working to create an online platform that health workers around the world can use to predict where malaria is likely to be transmitted using data on Google Earth Engine. The goal is...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Capital Development Authority (CDA), Directorate of Health Services has completed two phases high risk mapping and campaign to destroy dengue breeding sites in federal capital. Health Directorate of CDA has conducted an extensive exercise of the entire...
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
A high-resolution surveillance-response system has been developed within a geographic information system (GIS) to support malaria elimination in the Pacific. The application of a GIS-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) to automatically locate and map the distribution...
Monday, September 17th, 2012
Cambodian villagers armed with a little medical know-how -- and their mobile telephones -- are the nation's new foot soldiers in the fight against drug-resistant malaria. In the small village of Phnom Dambang near the Thai border, locals...
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Ever heard of satellite images helping in mosquito eradication and epidemic control? Well, that's what the global project of Kochi-based NGO, Centre for Advancement of Global Health (CAGH), is planning to undertake. It will show how Geographic...
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
RapidEye, the leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of earth through its constellation of satellites announced today that its imagery is being used by the MALAREO project to assist with malaria control programs in countries in...