Research contributing to a better world and healthier people is ongoing, and exactly what IFS supports. In April IFS drew attention to the importance of supporting this research, in our social media.

We started with World Health Day on 7 April. This year’s theme was “Health For All”, and we highlighted some of the keywords associated with projects that IFS is supporting, demonstrating the width and importance of this theme:

22 April was International Mother Earth Dayand here we wanted to show that supporting IFS means supporting research that contributes to saving our planet:

The last post for this month was on World Malaria Day, 25 April. Malaria is the killer of more than half a million people every year. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where most of our grantees live, shoulder about 93% of all malaria deaths globally. Among the most vulnerable groups are young children. At World Malaria Day, IFS emphasized the importance of supporting malaria research. Last year’s social media post was re-posted, and here we highlighted two of our grantees whose research is on malaria:

IFS grantee Ms Adaeze Echezona's (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) project aims to improve the clinical outcome of artemether and doxycycline in treating malaria by using liposomes as a drug delivery system. This delivery system is predicted to quickly cross biological barriers, making the two drugs more effective for treating severe and cerebral malaria.

IFS grantee Dr Harouna Sore, a researcher at Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme in Burkina Faso, is studying the malarial transmission-blocking functions of a compound called lophirone E, isolated from the stem of the African plant Lophira lanceolata.

So, when entering May, which in the Nordic countries means entering a season with more warming sunshine, let’s remind ourselves of all the good movements going on around the world and support these whenever we can!