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Sulaiman Jalloh
Monday, 16 December 2019

Interview with Sulaiman Jalloh, Medical Doctor from Sierra Leone

Sulaiman Jalloh, a medical doctor from Sierra Leone, has recently joined IDDO for a research internship. Here, he talks about his career to date, his experiences during the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak and reflections about how future research should be prioritised.
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Thursday, 28 November 2019

Current approach to exclude indeterminate recurrence from research analysis leads to an overestimate of the efficacy of antimalarial drugs

WWARN’s Clinical Scientific Group have published new research in BMC Medical Research Methodology, dealing with indeterminate outcomes in antimalarial drug efficacy trials: A comparison between complete case analysis, multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting.
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Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Professor Joel Tarning wins award at ASTMH 2019

WWARN’s Professor Joel Tarning has received a Bailey K. Ashford Medal today at ASTMH. The medal is named in honour of Bailey K. Ashford for recognising the connection between hookworm infection and anaemia at the age of 26. 
ASTMH
Friday, 15 November 2019

Medicine Quality at ASTMH

Join us at the symposia on Poor Quality Drugs and Antimicrobial Resistance at this year’s ASTMH. Chaired by Dr Joel Breman, ASTMH President-elect, the #98 symposia takes place on Friday 22 November, in Potomac C (Ballroom Level) from 4pm to 5.45pm.
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 ...
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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.
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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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