This unit was formally created in 2006 from the team that worked on the project « IPTp-SP ou CQ versus CQ weekly» in 1998-2001 among pregnant women reinforced by the return of Prof Boubacar Traoré in 2003.
Mission
- Contribution to the evaluation and implementation of malaria prevention strategies during pregnancy,
- Contribution to the understanding of the pathophysiology of malaria: immunology of placental infection,
- Contribution to the understanding of immune response acquisition during natural infestation with P. Falciparum,
- Promotion of training in the fields of parasitology, parasitic immunology
