The Global access to quality-assured medical products: the Oxford Statement and call to action published today in The Lancet Global Health has been signed by 159 attendees at the 2018 Oxford Conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health from governments, multilateral agencies, academia and civil ...

The Global access to quality-assured medical products: the Oxford Statement and call to action published today in The Lancet Global Health has been signed by 159 attendees at the 2018 Oxford Conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health from governments, multilateral agencies, academia and civil ...

TDR, IDDO and the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry are collaborating to support early-career doctors and scientists in Guinea to build their research skills and ultimately strengthen the country’s health system.

Applications have opened for PhD candidates from low and middle income Commonwealth countries to spend a year at a UK university.

When we are ill, we trust that the medicines that we take will make us feel and be better. But what if our pills do not contain the ingredients listed on the packaging? The art exhibition ‘What’s in your medicines?’ explores how substandard and falsified (‘fake’) medicines can affect our health, by ...

The first meeting of the newly formed Chagas Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) recently took place to shape the key aims and objectives of the Chagas disease data sharing platform. The platform was recently launched by the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) in collaboration with the Drugs...

The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Library, now available on WWARN, is the most comprehensive database of malaria in pregnancy available. The Library allows you to search published and unpublished literature free of charge.

An individual patient data meta-analysis of 2,017 patients from 19 studies has found a high risk of recurrence following treatment of P. vivax malaria with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) unless they are co-administered with primaquine. The research, published in...

A new study suggests that there are important but neglected issues with falsified and substandard medicines used to treat diabetes and that “no country is immune”.

WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Group have published research in BMC Medical Research methodology and Malaria Journal comparing different statistical approaches for deriving cumulative estimates of drug efficacy from clinical studies. Results indicate that the Cumulative Incidence Function (CIF) approac...

Join us for the next Tropical Medicine Webinar 'Mapping and Tracking Malaria' on Wednesday 9th October at 09:30 GMT. 

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.

Are you going to this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) 16-20 September at the ACC in Liverpool, or the NNN Conference 17-19 September?

Are you going to this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) 16-20 September at the ACC in Liverpool, between 17-19 September?

The British Society of Parasitology’s (BSP) three-day Spring Meeting is one of the biggest events in the society’s calendar and takes place at the University of Edinburgh from 15–17 April 2020. A strong malaria theme will run through the next meeting and IDDO is delighted to announce it will be open...

IDDO has launched a new global Chagas scientific collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). The new platform will collate and standardise data to accelerate better treatments for the 6–7 million people worldwide with Chagas disease.

An IDDO/WWARN study has found that primaquine is not associated with increased levels of anaemia following treatment of patients without G6PD deficiency for P. vivax malaria and should be used as part of a radical cure. In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers carried out a systematic r...

Teams from IDDO and WWARN are excited to once again be taking part in the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH.

Researchers have found that severe malnutrition is associated with lower exposure to the antimalarial drug lumefantrine in children treated with artemether-lumefantrine, the most common treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The study, which is the first to specifically address this, has be...