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WWARN News

Please visit WWARN's website for regular updates on malaria and sign up for the WWARN newsletter here. 

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IDDO team at Oxford
Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Expanding our Ebola data team to Sierra Leone and Liberia

We said goodbye at the end of 2018 to our first group of trainee data managers from Liberia and Sierra Leone. It has been great to have their skilled input now boosting our 2019 Ebola Data Team. It is all part of the launch of the Ebola Data Platform in Sierra Leone and Liberia – a collaborative eff...
IDDO team at Oxford
Tuesday, 26 February 2019

L'expansion de notre équipe de données Ebola en Sierra Leone et au Libéria

A la fin de l'année 2018, nous avons dit au revoir à notre premier groupe de gestionnaires de données stagiaires du Libéria et de la Sierra Leone. Il a été formidable de pouvoir compter sur leur expertise pour renforcer notre équipe des données Ebola en 2019. Tout cela fait partie du lancement de la...
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Friday, 22 February 2019

Call for applications: TDR Clinical Research and Development Fellowships

Deadline for submission: 7 March 2019, 16:00 (GMT)
Lancet Global Health
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Research highlight: Clinical research networks and assessing pandemic severity

Carson, Horby, Merson and colleagues promote the importance of developing clinical research networks in low-resource settings as a pillar to epidemic preparedness in a Letter to Lancet Global Health. The CTM&GH researchers are focused on developing capacity and partnerships across settings at highes...
Wellcome Data Re-use Prize for Malaria
Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Wellcome Data Re-use Prize for Malaria

The Wellcome Trust, Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) and Sage Bionetworks have created a new prize for proposals to develop a new insight, tool, or health application using the malaria data held by MAP.
Assessing the risk of P. vivax after P. falciparum
Wednesday, 13 February 2019

A high risk of P. vivax after P. falciparum infection

IDDO's malaria platform, WWARN, has published its latest results in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, calling for researchers, policy makers and public health professionals to reopen discussions about the potential for changing the way uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria is treated in some regions. Th...
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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Wellcome Data Re-use Prize for Malaria

The Wellcome Trust, Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) and Sage Bionetworks have created a new prize for proposals to develop a new insight, tool, or health application using the malaria data held by MAP.
Women of IDDO
Monday, 11 February 2019

Women in Science Day

To celebrate International Women and Girls in Science Day 2019 we asked some of the women of IDDO about their careers in science.
Photo Bengal India (c) UN Women/ Anindit Roy Chowdhury
Tuesday, 22 January 2019

Reports of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Eastern India

Das and colleagues published in November 2018 a short letter entitled ‘Evidence of Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Eastern India’. In a subsequent paper published in CID, the same group reported the results of a study conducted between 2014–2016 in the same region, where 15 pa...
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Thursday, 17 January 2019

Latest WWARN publication identifies 15 new mutant alleles in the Kelch-13 gene

A recent WWARN individual patient meta-analysis has gathered 18 published and unpublished studies from Africa and Asia to explore the relationships between identified Kelch 13 mutant alleles and delayed parasite clearance. The study results show one P. falciparum specific mutant and 20 pfk13 propell...
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Friday, 14 December 2018

Sharing our latest Asia and Africa regional activities at 4 conferences

Professor Karen Barnes presents WWARN’s approach to equitable data sharing at the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research satellite meeting in South Africa, 13-14 November 2018.
27 VL experts attended the IDDO-DNDi symposium in Delhi on 27 November 2018
Wednesday, 12 December 2018

VL experts attend IDDO-DNDi symposium ahead of IEC-VL conference 2018

IDDO and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) hosted a symposium for Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) experts to discuss the benefits of establishing a global VL data platform and refine a research agenda that will explore key scientific questions to enhance care for VL patients and affecte...
Packets of medicine
Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Can portable devices really detect poor quality medicines?

A systematic review of 41 scientific studies evaluating the performance and abilities of portable devices to assess the quality of pharmaceutical products has been published today. The review revealed that although there is a wide range of devices available for medicines quality screening, there is ...
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Wednesday, 5 December 2018

New Study Group launches to determine the effects of pregnancy on piperaquine pharmacokinetics

A new Piperaquine Pharmacokinetics in Pregnancy Study Group is now open for participation. The analysis hopes to determine the effect of pregnancy on the pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of piperaquine and contribute evidence to inform decisions on the use and optimal dosing of piperaquine in pregnan...
Cardiovascular Safety is important when treating patients with antimalarials. Photo: Ami Vitale / World Bank Ivory Coast
Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Assessing the effect of antimalarial medicines on the heart’s rhythm

Malaria is the leading cause of parasitic disease, killing nearly half a million people per year, most of whom are African children. Recent figures from the World Health Organization indicate that the decline in the number of infections and deaths annually has stalled. We are once again at a critica...
Over 200 delegates attended MPQH 2018
Wednesday, 14 November 2018

MQPH 2018 conference participants sign Oxford Statement in a pledge to radically improve medicine quality

Over 30 organisations have so far signed the Oxford statement developed by IDDO and the Medicines We Can Trust campaign during the first ever-academic conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health in Oxford, 23-28 September.
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018

MQPH 2018 conference participants sign Oxford Statement in a pledge to radically improve medicine quality

Over 40 organisations have so far signed the Oxford statement developed by IDDO and the Medicines We Can Trust campaign during the first ever-academic conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health in Oxford, 23-28 September.
Original artworks on display at MQPH 2018
Monday, 12 November 2018

PHARMACIDE ARTS - Fake medicine: the disease of greed

If you’re in Oxford, UK between now and January 4th, 2019 visit the Radcliffe Science Library at the University of Oxford to see a new art exhibition of 14 prints illustrating the global health impact of poor quality medicines.
Dr Mahamoud Sama Cherif presenting his poster on creating an equitable governance framework for IDDO’s Ebola research theme, credit: EDCTP forum.
Friday, 9 November 2018

Highlights from the 9th EDCTP Forum in Lisbon

Researchers from IDDO and the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) presented at the 9th European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) forum held in Lisbon, Portugal from 17-21 September 2018.
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Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Reviewing the Cardiovascular Safety Profile of Antimalarial Drugs

Quinoline antimalarial drugs are vital tools in the fight against malaria. However, their possible effect on the heart’s rhythm raises safety concerns which may limit their use.

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