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WWARN News

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

Credit: Pearl Gan
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A recent WWARN individual patient meta-analysis has gathered 18 published and unpublished studies from Africa and Asia to explore the relationships between identified Kelch 13 mutant alleles and delayed parasite clearance.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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Monday, 5 November 2018

Malaria and malnutrition – assessing the risks for small children

A WWARN Study Group recently published a large systematic literature review to understand whether undernutrition places children at higher, lower, or no differential risk for malaria. The goal was to evaluate evidence to help optimise antimalarial treatment strategies and support global health pract...
Scientist in protective clothing
Thursday, 1 November 2018

Ebola Data Access Committee call for nominations

IDDO’s Ebola Data Platform, a pioneering collaboration in Ebola and emerging infections, has opened nominations for members of its Data Access Committee (DAC). Individuals with skills and expertise in clinical research, data protection and management, ethics in research and emergency public health r...
IDDO stand at ASTMH
Thursday, 25 October 2018

ASTMH 2018 is starting soon – find out more about our activities in New Orleans

If you’re planning to be at this year’s 67th American Society of Tropical Medicine and Health Annual Meeting in New Orleans, then do come and see us. We’ll be sharing our latest results and tools at Booth 416 – so do stop by to meet the IDDO team to exchange ideas on how we might work together.
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Wednesday, 24 October 2018

We've updated our visualisation tools

The latest results are now live on three WWARN surveyors:
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Wednesday, 24 October 2018

ASTMH 2018 has begun – discover our activities in New Orleans

ASTMH is upon us – we look forward to seeing many of our partners in the USA very soon.
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Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Sparking new collaboration and multi-stakeholder discussion on substandard and falsified medicines at MQPH 2018

Over 200 delegates traveled from more than 50 countries to attend the first ever conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health (MQPH) in Oxford from 23-28 September 2018.
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Monday, 22 October 2018

Highlights from the 9th EDCTP Forum in Lisbon

Researchers from WWARN and the Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) 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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Sunday, 23 September 2018

First ever international conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health this month

The Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO), together with WWARN and many partners including the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the Concept Foundation, the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and the Wellcome Trust are hosting the first Medicine Quality and Public Health con...

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