Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is transmitted to humans through the bites from infected female phlebotomine sand flies. If left untreated, it is fatal in 95% of cases. Globally, it is estimated there are up to 22,000 new cases of VL each year which occur in Brazil, Ethiopia, I...

The International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) is producing a weekly report using clinical data from its COVID-19 database. To date, this includes data from 35,978 individuals from 336 sites across 35 countries.

The research, published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the fruit of joint project between investigators from around the world to conduct the largest individual patient data meta-analysis to date under the WWARN umbrella. The study found that artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and other artemis...

IDDO is proud to be part of the CDISC task force who rapidly developed the newly released Interim User Guide to support the Covid-19 research community.

Recently a newly formed site team in Malawi used the WWARN Malaria Clinical Trials Toolkit for their antimalarial-antiretroviral drug-drug interaction trial with pregnant women (IMPROVE DDI).

IDDO has published a draft Research Agenda for open review on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs) for feedback and comments from the wider research community until June 4, 2020.

Global health experts have united in a call for governments and international organisations around the world to plan strategically for the coordinated production, equitable distribution and surveillance of COVID-19 medical products to ensure access to quality-assured medications for everyone.

A group of scientists, physicians, funders, and policy makers from over 70 institutions from over 30 countries have launched an international coalition to respond to COVID-19 in resource-poor settings. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition aims to accelerate desperately needed COVID-19 research i...

The problem of substandard and falsified (SF) medical products affects all countries but few regulatory authorities or pharmaceutical companies have policies of publicly releasing data.

Researchers from low and middle-income countries who work in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are invited to apply for a fellowship starting this autumn.

12 March 2020, Bangkok (Thailand) – Adding a third antimalarial drug to current artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs) provides effective treatment against multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria in Southeast Asia, say Mahidol and Oxford University researchers in a study published today in The Lanc...

Simon Croft, Professor of Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been involved in visceral leishmaniasis research for 38 years. Prof Croft has been instrumental in setting up the IDDO’s visceral leishmaniasis data platform, including serving as the Chair of its Scien...

The Ebola Data Platform is now open for data access applications. The platform currently holds contributed data from >13,500 patients under the authority of governments, ministries, and organisations in Ebola-affected countries, and this number is increasing. Researchers can apply to access the d...

A statistical analysis of data hosted within the WWARN repository from 4,214 participants across multiple study sites in Africa has been published in BMC Medicine. Results indicate that the local prevalence of resistance-associated markers should be considered when choosing a first-line drug to ensu...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. This day recognises and celebrates the critical role played by women but also aims to promote their full and equal access to participation in science. However, despite more women than ever working across the sciences, it is still a male-d...

Early-career researchers and global health professionals can apply for grants to undertake work in the field of tropical medicine.

A new initiative to tackle the problem of substandard and falsified (SF) medical products in Africa has been adopted by seven countries on the continent. The Lomé Initiative, launched in Lomé, the capital of Togo, by heads of state from the Republic of the Congo, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Uganda, Ghana,...

Governments, funders, and research bodies must take action to ensure that research is undertaken ethically during global health emergencies, says a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

When we are ill, we expect our medicines to work as intended. But what if they do not contain the ingredients listed on the packaging? The Pharmacide Arts exhibition “What’s in your medicines?” showcases the original artwork of 11 South East Asian artists.