A new study quantifying the high risk of Plasmodium vivax parasitaemia after treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria and exploring the factors associated with this has been published in PLOS Medicine.

Une nouvelle étude, publiée dans PLOS Medicine, quantifie le risque élevé de parasitémie à Plasmodium vivax après un traitement contre le paludisme à Plasmodium falciparum et explore les facteurs associés à cette maladie.

NAIROBI/KINSHASA/GENEVA – Thirteen African countries and an international network of research institutions have joined forces to launch the largest COVID-19 clinical trial in mild-to-moderate outpatients in Africa. The ANTICOV clinical trial aims to respond to the urgent need to identify treatments ...

Professor Joel Tarning has been awarded the biennial Grahame-Smith Prize by the British Pharmacological Society for outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacology.

Le professeur Joel Tarning a reçu le prix biennal Grahame-Smith de la British Pharmacology Society pour ses contributions exceptionnelles à la pharmacologie clinique.

This year’s ASTMH from 15-19 November 2020 is going virtual. WWARN, as part of IDDO, is presenting in three sessions. Find out more below.

In January 2020, ISARIC (the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium) launched an international initiative for standardised COVID-19 clinical data collection. Over the past nine months, there has been extensive global participation, resulting in one of the world’s l...

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 122,361 individuals from 578 sites across 42 countries.

A series of articles that set out to explore the global distribution of infections that cause non-malarial febrile illness (NMFI) has today been published in BMC Medicine.The series brings together the results of large-scale systematic reviews of the causes of fever in Africa, Latin America, and Sou...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul Newton has won the Helen-Clark-JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research. Professor Newton has been presented with the award based on the scientific merit of his work, as well as its impact on patients, decisions makers, and on g...

Les normes de microscopie appliquées à la recherche clinique sur le paludisme (ReMMS) ont été publiées dans Malaria Journal. L’article décrit la raison d'être des normes proposées pour préparer, colorer et examiner des frottis sanguins contenant potentiellement des parasites du paludisme.

Research Malaria Microscopy Standards (ReMMS) applicable to malaria clinical research studies have been published in Malaria Journal. The paper describes the rationale for proposed standards to prepare, stain and examine blood films for malaria parasites.

The Medicine Quality Research Group has published a six-month Medical Product Quality Report focused on COVID-19 today, using its Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe tool. New reports will be issued monthly from now on, following the first January - June publication.

La prévention et la détection des produits médicaux de qualité inférieure ou falsifiés (QIF), ainsi que la riposte à apporter, rencontrent un défi majeur : le manque d'informations accessibles et fiables sur l'ampleur du problème.

New resources are available now on IDDO’s website for COVID-19 researchers. The resources will guide researchers in the collection of ECG data, and the collection, processing and transport of blood pharmacokinetic samples and data.

A major challenge in preventing, detecting and responding to substandard and falsified (SF) medical products is the lack of accessible and reliable information on how widespread the problem is and where. SF medical products, which includes medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and devices, pose an i...

Nominations for members of the COVID-19 Data Platform Data Access Committee are now open. Please consider nominating individuals to contribute expertise to this pioneering collaboration in COVID-19 and emerging infections research to covid19@iddo.org by 31 July 2020.

It is with great sadness that IDDO has learnt of the passing of Professor Marleen Boelaert, a valued member of the IDDO team since 2017. Professor Boelaert’s research concentrated on the control of tropical infectious diseases, mainly leishmaniasis and sleeping sickness.

Première du genre, une bibliothèque collaborative en libre accès est maintenant disponible pour soutenir l'effort mondial de recherche sur le paludisme.

A first of its kind collaborative open access library to support the global malaria research effort is now available.