Malaria Prevention: Progress to Date
) and R21/Matrix-M vaccines rolled out in many highly malaria-endemic sub-Saharan African countries, in addition to other malaria control tools, provide overall moderate protection in young children but significantly reduce severe disease and death, and are considered safe. For travellers, malaria vaccines are not available to date. Effort is being put into the development of monoclonal antibodies against malaria as a preventive treatment strategy both to provide protection for the immunocompromised or unvaccinated high-risk individuals before exposure and to disrupt seasonal malaria transmission with a single application. The evolution of malaria preventive tools is a dynamic process, with numerous novel developments on the horizon. For travel medicine indications, further harmonisation of recommendations on the one hand, but also more sophisticated personalisation of recommendations, is envisaged.
Authors
- Patricia Schlagenhauf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1075-7010)
- Martin P. Grobusch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-1099)
- K. de Jong Hanna
- Thomas Hanscheid
- Jenny L. Schnyder
Institutions
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Centre de Recherche Médicales de Lambaréné (GA)
- Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL)
- German Center for Infection Research (DE)
- Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (NL)
- Public Health Service of Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Institute of Infection and Immunity (CA)
- Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SL)
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (NL)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Drugs
- Published
- 2026-04-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-026-02318-w
- Primary Topic
- Malaria Research and Control
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00