Author Archives: Sophie Beauvais

About Sophie Beauvais

Sophie G. Beauvais, Communications and Web Content Manager Before joining GHD, Sophie led communications strategies and public relations campaigns for various non- and for-profit organizations. Past projects include revamping the corporate website for Vinfen, a leading human services provider in Massachusetts, where she received the Awards of Excellence for External Periodicals and for Corporate Brand Identity by the New England Society for Healthcare Communications in 2006 for The Vinfen Voice newsletter; co-creating Santepress.com; and managing campaigns at Capital Image, an independent health care PR firm. She holds a Master of Information and Communication Sciences from La Sorbonne Nouvelle.

World Malaria Day: A public health disaster about to happen?

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Half of the world’s population is at risk of malaria. There were 216 million cases of malaria in 2010, 81% of these were in the WHO African. (WHO 2011)

Since the mid-2000s, the treatment of choice against malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease, is based on the artemisinin derivative, artesunate. This in addition to environmental control measures like:,insecticide treated bed nets, insect repellents, and indoor residual sprays of insecticides. Environmental management including the removal or treatment of standing water (where mosquitoes breed) have been shown to reduce and even eliminate malaria.

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No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century

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Patient dying of MDR-TB and HIV and her mother in Lesotho. (c) Open Society Institute/Pep Bonet

This is what we stand for. As today’s World TB Day comes to a close (at least in this part of the world), please take a minute to sign up to one of our expert-led communities on GHDonline.org — two focus on fighting and eradicating this deadly scourge (MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention and TB Infection Control).

And if you have a few more minutes, please read “No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century“, an article in the Huffington Post co-authored with Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, Ph.D, Sc.M, former GHDonline moderator, and currently Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Senior TB Specialist at Partners In Health.

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