Dr Cristina Donini, Senior Director, Translational Medicine

MMV's Cristina Donini speaks with RSI on the significance of the new RTS,S malaria vaccine (starts at 6:55). 

George Jagoe, Executive Vice President, Access & Product Management, MMV

George Jagoe speaks with Channel Africa on a recent pledge by leaders of malaria-endemic countries across Africa and the Asia-Pacific to accelerate malaria elimination through domestic funding and by creating and enabling a policy environment for the introduction of new tools and access to medicines. Read the press release. 

Dr Jeremy Burrows, VP, Head of Drug Discovery, MMV

Dr Jeremy Burrows speaks with the BBC about DDD107498, a new compound that has the potential to treat malaria patients in a single dose. The details of the discovery, properties and mechanism of action of this antimalarial compound, have been published in the journal Nature. Read the press release.

Dr. Wilfred Mbacham, Executive Director of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria, MIM Secretariat

While governments are strengthening national and regional efforts to eliminate malaria, researchers and implementers are rising to other challenges, developing innovative solutions, tools and technologies to eliminate malaria. Some of this work was announced at the 6th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan African Conference in the South African coastal city of Durban. Dr Mbacham reflects on the events that formed part of the meeting.

Mr Ray Chambers, MMV's Chairman of the Board

In the lead-up to the Saving Lives in the Asia Pacific Conference, ABC Radio Australia interviews Mr Ray Chambers about the spread of drug-resistant malaria from the Greater Mekong Basin, one of the issues on the conference agenda.

Bongi Makhabela, Chief Executive Officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation

Following the MMV-CRESIB Forum on 15 March, Bongi Makhabela, gives a rousing speech at a dinner in Barcelona, attended by Her Royal Highness Princess Cristina of Spain, on fundraising techniques, the work of the Mandela Foundation, and the need to tell positive stories of success.

“We need to continue to dream of different worlds. We need to continue to believe there is another way…We need to continue to believe in what we are doing.”