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Credit: Pearl Gan
Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe
Monday, 30 March 2020

First global tool to track news reports of substandard and falsified medical products is live

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.
Laboratory technician
Thursday, 19 March 2020

Deadline extended for WIPO Re:Search Fellowship Program

Researchers from low and middle-income countries who work in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are invited to apply for a fellowship starting this autumn.
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Triple drug combinations effective against drug-resistant malaria

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...
Photo of Simon Croft
Monday, 9 March 2020

An interview with Professor Simon Croft

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...
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Monday, 2 March 2020

Dépôt de demandes d’accès aux données sur la plate-forme de données Ebola

Il est désormais possible de déposer des demandes d'accès aux données sur la plate-forme de données Ebola. La plate-forme détient actuellement, sous l'autorité des gouvernements, ministères et organisations des pays touchés par le virus Ebola, des données concernant plus de 13 500 patients. Et ce no...
Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank
Monday, 2 March 2020

Ebola Data Platform open for applications to access data

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...
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Analysing malaria treatments in Africa: a comparison of the two front-line treatments

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...
Women in Science Day
Tuesday, 11 February 2020

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020

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...
Woman walking in woodland in tropical country
Friday, 7 February 2020

RSTMH 2020 Grants now open

Early-career researchers and global health professionals can apply for grants to undertake work in the field of tropical medicine.
Professor Paul Newton
Saturday, 1 February 2020

Comment in The Lancet on the Lomé Initiative

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,...
Collated images showing global health emergencies
Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Action needed to ensure research is carried out ethically in global health emergencies

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.
Painting from Pharmacide Arts
Thursday, 9 January 2020

Art exhibition on substandard and falsified medicines comes to Bangkok

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.
IDDO newsletter
Wednesday, 18 December 2019

IDDO’s first newsletter

IDDO has just launched its first newsletter to update our scientific communities across our growing, data re-use collaborations. Sign-up to receive it.
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Wednesday, 18 December 2019

WWARN celebrates 10th Anniversary

This year we mark a decade of WWARN. As a unique collaborative data-sharing framework, over the last ten years WWARN has proved it is possible to produce policy-changing scientific evidence about the treatment of malaria from the collection, curation and further analysis of existing data.
Art exhibition
Monday, 16 December 2019

Pharmacide arts exhibition visiting Vientiane

Art exhibition “What’s in your medicines?” (Pharmacide Arts) is coming to the University of Health Sciences in Vientiane from 17–25 December 2019.
Sulaiman Jalloh
Monday, 16 December 2019

Entretien avec Sulaiman Jalloh, docteur en médecine en Sierra Leone

Sulaiman Jalloh, médecin en Sierra Leone, a récemment rejoint IDDO pour effectuer un stage de recherche. Dans cet entretien, il nous parle de sa carrière, de son vécu au cours de l’épidémie d’Ebola 2014-16 et nous fait part de ses réflexions sur la façon dont la recherche future devrait être prioris...
Sulaiman Jalloh
Monday, 16 December 2019

Interview with Sulaiman Jalloh, Medical Doctor from Sierra Leone

Sulaiman Jalloh, a medical doctor from Sierra Leone, has recently joined IDDO for a research internship. Here, he talks about his career to date, his experiences during the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak and reflections about how future research should be prioritised.
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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Current approach to exclude indeterminate recurrence from research analysis leads to an overestimate of the efficacy of antimalarial drugs

WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Group have published new research in BMC Medical Research Methodology, dealing with indeterminate outcomes in antimalarial drug efficacy trials: A comparison between complete case analysis, multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting.
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Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Professor Joel Tarning wins award at ASTMH 2019

WWARN’s Professor Joel Tarning has received a Bailey K. Ashford Medal today at ASTMH. The medal is named in honour of Bailey K. Ashford for recognising the connection between hookworm infection and anaemia at the age of 26. 
ASTMH
Friday, 15 November 2019

Medicine Quality at ASTMH

Join us at the symposia on Poor Quality Drugs and Antimicrobial Resistance at this year’s ASTMH. Chaired by Dr Joel Breman, ASTMH President-elect, the #98 symposia takes place on Friday 22 November, in Potomac C (Ballroom Level) from 4pm to 5.45pm.

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