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IDDO at ASTMH
Friday, 8 November 2019

IDDO at ASTMH 2019

Come and meet us at this year’s ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting. Over 4,800 delegates are expected to attend with leading global health researchers from around the world. At this year’s conference we have symposia, talks and posters on scrub typhus, malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and medicine quality.
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Friday, 8 November 2019

WWARN at ASTMH 2019

Come and meet us at this year’s ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting. Over 4,800 delegates are expected to attend with leading global health researchers from around the world. At this year’s conference, as part of IDDO, we have symposia, talks and posters on malaria, scrub typhus, visceral leishmaniasis and me...
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Friday, 8 November 2019

Over 150 representatives from governments, multilateral agencies, academia and civil society call for global action on medicine quality

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 Lancet Global Health, December 2019 Issue
Thursday, 7 November 2019

Over 150 representatives from governments, multilateral agencies, academia and civil society call for global action on medicine quality

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 ...
Guinea workshop participants
Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Collaboration to strengthen health research in Guinea

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.
Globe
Wednesday, 16 October 2019

PhD candidates urged to apply for scholarship

Applications have opened for PhD candidates from low and middle income Commonwealth countries to spend a year at a UK university.
Pharmacide exhibition painting
Tuesday, 15 October 2019

Artists explore the problems of poor quality and fake medicines

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 ...
Photo: Sheba Meymandi
Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Meet the Chagas Scientific Advisory Committee

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...
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Monday, 7 October 2019

Malaria in Pregnancy Library – now available on WWARN

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.
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Friday, 4 October 2019

New research supports co-administration of primaquine with artemisinin-based combination therapies for P. vivax malaria

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...
Diabetes prick test
Monday, 30 September 2019

New study alerts to the risks of poor quality medicines for diabetes treatment

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”.
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Monday, 30 September 2019

Mapping and Tracking Malaria – upcoming webinar

Join us for the next Tropical Medicine Webinar 'Mapping and Tracking Malaria' on Wednesday 9th October at 09:30 GMT. 
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Monday, 30 September 2019

Latest research explores new statistical approaches for estimating antimalarial drug efficacy

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...
Sauman Singh
Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Highlights from ECTMIH 2019

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.
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Tuesday, 24 September 2019

WWARN ECTMIH Highlights

We hope you enjoyed this year’s 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH 2019, as much as we did.
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Friday, 13 September 2019

Join us at the ECTMIH and NNN Conferences

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?
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Friday, 13 September 2019

Join us at the ECTMIH Conference next week

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?
Edinburgh view from Calton Hill
Thursday, 15 August 2019

IDDO symposium to open BSP Spring Meeting

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...
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Wednesday, 7 August 2019

New Chagas collaboration to aggregate and standardise data

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.
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Thursday, 1 August 2019

Latest research finds primaquine improves haemoglobin by day 42 following treatment of P. vivax malaria

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...

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