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Wednesday, 3 June 2020

More time to comment on draft Research Agenda

IDDO has extended the feedback period on its draft Research Agenda on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs) until July 17. Comments are welcome from the wider research community to help form the direction of research work using IDDO’s schistosomiasis and STHs data platform.
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020

Features of 20,133 UK patients in hospital with COVID-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study

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Friday, 22 May 2020

New global collaboration developing standards for standardised data collection across the VL research community

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), also known as kala-azar, is transmitted to humans through the bites from infected female phlebotomine sand flies. If left untreated, it is fatal in 95% of cases. Globally, it is estimated there are up to 22,000 new cases of VL each year which occur in Brazil, Ethiopia, I...
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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

New evidence for optimising malaria treatment in pregnant women

The research, published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases is the fruit of joint project between investigators from around the world to conduct the largest individual patient data meta-analysis to date under the WWARN umbrella. The study found that artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and other artemis...
Wednesday, 29 April 2020

De nouvelles données pour optimiser le traitement du paludisme chez les femmes enceintes

Les travaux de recherche, publiés aujourd'hui dans The Lancet Infectious Diseases, sont le fruit d’un projet conjoint entre plusieurs chercheurs à travers le monde : la plus importante méta-analyse des données individuelles de patients menée à ce jour sous les auspices de WWARN. L'étude a révélé que...
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Monday, 27 April 2020

CDISC Interim User Guide released

IDDO is proud to be part of the CDISC task force who rapidly developed the newly released Interim User Guide to support the Covid-19 research community.
Thursday, 23 April 2020

La boîte à outils WWARN en action

Récemment, une équipe sur site nouvellement formée au Malawi a utilisé la boîte à outils WWARN destinée aux essais cliniques sur le paludisme pour leur essai sur les interactions médicamenteuses entre antirétroviraux et antipaludiques chez les femmes enceintes (IMPROVE DDI).
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Thursday, 23 April 2020

The WWARN Toolkit in Action

Recently a newly formed site team in Malawi used the WWARN Malaria Clinical Trials Toolkit for their antimalarial-antiretroviral drug-drug interaction trial with pregnant women (IMPROVE DDI).
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Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Help us define research priorities in schistosomiasis and STHs

IDDO has published a draft Research Agenda for open review on schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (STHs) for feedback and comments from the wider research community until June 4, 2020.
Novel Coronavirus SARS CoV 2
Thursday, 9 April 2020

Global call for strategic planning for COVID-19 medical products

Global health experts have united in a call for governments and international organisations around the world to plan strategically for the coordinated production, equitable distribution and surveillance of COVID-19 medical products to ensure access to quality-assured medications for everyone.
Thursday, 9 April 2020

Appel mondial pour la planification stratégique des produits médicaux contre le COVID-19

Les experts de la santé mondiale se sont unis dans un appel lancé aux gouvernements et organisations internationales à travers le monde pour planifier de façon stratégique la production coordonnée, la distribution équitable et la surveillance des produits médicaux contre le COVID-19 afin d'assurer ...
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Thursday, 2 April 2020

Coalition launched to accelerate research on the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

A group of scientists, physicians, funders, and policy makers from over 70 institutions from over 30 countries have launched an international coalition to respond to COVID-19 in resource-poor settings. The COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition aims to accelerate desperately needed COVID-19 research i...
Tuesday, 31 March 2020

Lancement du premier outil mondial de suivi des articles consacrés aux produits médicaux falsifiés et de qualité inférieure

Le problème des produits médicaux de qualité inférieure et falsifiés (QIF) touche tous les pays mais peu d'autorités de réglementation ou de compagnies pharmaceutiques ont des politiques de diffusion publique des données.
Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe
Monday, 30 March 2020

First global tool to track news reports of substandard and falsified medical products is live

The problem of substandard and falsified (SF) medical products affects all countries but few regulatory authorities or pharmaceutical companies have policies of publicly releasing data.
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Thursday, 19 March 2020

Deadline extended for WIPO Re:Search Fellowship Program

Researchers from low and middle-income countries who work in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are invited to apply for a fellowship starting this autumn.
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Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Triple drug combinations effective against drug-resistant malaria

12 March 2020, Bangkok (Thailand) – Adding a third antimalarial drug to current artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs) provides effective treatment against multidrug-resistant falciparum malaria in Southeast Asia, say Mahidol and Oxford University researchers in a study published today in The Lanc...
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Monday, 9 March 2020

An interview with Professor Simon Croft

Simon Croft, Professor of Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has been involved in visceral leishmaniasis research for 38 years. Prof Croft has been instrumental in setting up the IDDO’s visceral leishmaniasis data platform, including serving as the Chair of its Scien...
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Monday, 2 March 2020

Dépôt de demandes d’accès aux données sur la plate-forme de données Ebola

Il est désormais possible de déposer des demandes d'accès aux données sur la plate-forme de données Ebola. La plate-forme détient actuellement, sous l'autorité des gouvernements, ministères et organisations des pays touchés par le virus Ebola, des données concernant plus de 13 500 patients. Et ce no...
Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank
Monday, 2 March 2020

Ebola Data Platform open for applications to access data

The Ebola Data Platform is now open for data access applications. The platform currently holds contributed data from >13,500 patients under the authority of governments, ministries, and organisations in Ebola-affected countries, and this number is increasing. Researchers can apply to access the d...
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Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Analysing malaria treatments in Africa: a comparison of the two front-line treatments

A statistical analysis of data hosted within the WWARN repository from 4,214 participants across multiple study sites in Africa has been published in BMC Medicine. Results indicate that the local prevalence of resistance-associated markers should be considered when choosing a first-line drug to ensu...

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