{"id":1953,"date":"2026-04-25T23:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2026-06-21T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T21:06:23","slug":"world-malaria-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/2026\/04\/25\/world-malaria-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"World Malaria Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/06\/innovagora-2-e1782074483706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1955\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/06\/innovagora-2-e1782074483706.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/06\/innovagora-2-e1782074483706-600x432.jpg 600w, https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2026\/06\/innovagora-2-e1782074483706-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of <strong>World Malaria Day 2026<\/strong>, promoted by the <strong>World Health Organization (WHO)<\/strong>, the <strong>Italian Society of Parasitology (SoIPa)<\/strong> launched a social media awareness campaign dedicated to malaria research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universities and research institutions from across Italy contributed short outreach videos in which researchers shared their work and their daily commitment to combating this disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ParVirLab, University of Milan<\/strong>, also took part in the initiative through the contributions of <strong>Abirla<\/strong>, <strong>Aline<\/strong> (a PhD student from <strong>Fiocruz University, Brazil<\/strong>, visiting our laboratory), <strong>Estefan\u00eda<\/strong>, and <strong>Federica<\/strong>, who shared their experiences in malaria research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Watch the campaign videos:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Video: Searching for new drugs against malaria<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/DSv0Jo6aLbQ?si=W5cS_YZNzsryV9n8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Video: Investigating malaria pathogenesis to understand its impact on the human body<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/ONAhAiWiK4o?si=Qf3qsHmIhUOundHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every\u00a0year,\u00a0over 250\u00a0million\u00a0people\u00a0worldwide\u00a0require\u00a0treatment for malaria, a\u00a0disease\u00a0that\u00a0remains\u00a0a major global health challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parvirlab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}