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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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Friday, 13 September 2019

Join us at the ECTMIH Conference next week

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, between 17-19 September?
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Thursday, 15 August 2019

IDDO symposium to open BSP Spring Meeting

The British Society of Parasitology’s (BSP) three-day Spring Meeting is one of the biggest events in the society’s calendar and takes place at the University of Edinburgh from 15–17 April 2020. A strong malaria theme will run through the next meeting and IDDO is delighted to announce it will be open...
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Wednesday, 7 August 2019

New Chagas collaboration to aggregate and standardise data

IDDO has launched a new global Chagas scientific collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). The new platform will collate and standardise data to accelerate better treatments for the 6–7 million people worldwide with Chagas disease.
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Thursday, 1 August 2019

Latest research finds primaquine improves haemoglobin by day 42 following treatment of P. vivax malaria

An IDDO/WWARN study has found that primaquine is not associated with increased levels of anaemia following treatment of patients without G6PD deficiency for P. vivax malaria and should be used as part of a radical cure. In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers carried out a systematic r...
11th ECTMIH 2019
Monday, 29 July 2019

IDDO and WWARN scientists to attend ECTMIH in September

Teams from IDDO and WWARN are excited to once again be taking part in the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH.
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019

Antimalarial treatments less effective in severely malnourished children

Researchers have found that severe malnutrition is associated with lower exposure to the antimalarial drug lumefantrine in children treated with artemether-lumefantrine, the most common treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. The study, which is the first to specifically address this, has be...
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Monday, 22 July 2019

Call for applications for NIHR research funding awards

There’s still time to apply for a National Institute for Health Research, NIHR, Global Health Policy and Systems Research Development Award.
WWARN workshop participants
Sunday, 7 July 2019

West African workshop

IDDO's WWARN hosted a successful workshop in West Africa aimed at improving researchers’ skills. The aim of the workshops was two-fold; to train researchers in best practice of designing, conducting, analysing and reporting antimalarial drug clinical trials, and also to build expertise within the...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Longer follow-up needed for malaria treatment in pregnant women

New research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases has found that a longer follow-up is required to assess antimalarial drug efficacy in pregnant women. This was found across all drugs assessed in low malaria transmission settings. The report’s authors have called for guidelines specifically f...
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Thursday, 27 June 2019

IDDO announces new research activities for visceral leishmaniasis

IDDO’s visceral leishmaniasis (VL) collaboration is working on two new projects looking at the treatment of VL.
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Friday, 14 June 2019

Access malaria data using the WWARN Data Inventory

WWARN’s extensive scientific work has informed changes in dosage and combinations of antimalarial drugs and has led to policy change. 
Kalynn and Sam at CDISC 2019
Friday, 7 June 2019

IDDO scientists’ novel solution for data standards

IDDO Researchers presented at the European CDISC Interchange held in Amsterdam, Netherlands from May 6 to 7, 2019.
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Wednesday, 22 May 2019

IDDO gets behind the Santa Cruz Letter for action on Chagas

A letter signed by IDDO, members of the Chagas Platform and the Chagas Global Coalition calling on governments, organisations and donors to intensify efforts to control and eliminate Chagas has been presented to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Saturday, 18 May 2019

Latest research explores new statistical approaches for estimating antimalarial drug efficacy

IDDO and WWARN's Clinical Scientific Group have published research in BMC Medical Research Methodology comparing different statistical approaches for deriving cumulative estimates of drug efficacy from clinical studies. Results indicate that the Cumulative Incidence Function (CIF) approach should be...
Ebola Virus Particles (colourised SEM). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Monday, 13 May 2019

New Data Access Committee begins work on Ebola

The Ebola Data Platform, a pioneering collaboration in Ebola and emerging infections, has today appointed nine members for its first Data Access Committee (DAC), overseen and chaired by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, hosted at WHO.
Particules du virus Ebola (MEB coloré). Crédit : Institut national des maladies allergiques et infectieuses, instituts nationaux de la santé (NIH)
Monday, 13 May 2019

Le nouveau Comité d'accès aux données commence ses travaux sur Ebola

La plateforme de données Ebola, une collaboration pionnière dans le domaine d'Ebola et des infections émergentes, a nommé aujourd'hui neuf membres à son premier Comité d'accès aux données (CAD), supervisé et présidé par le TDR, le Programme spécial de recherche et de formation sur les maladies tropi...
Visceral leishmaniasis: spleen. Credit: SB Lucas. CC0
Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Help us define IDDO’s research priorities in Visceral Leishmaniasis

IDDO has published a Draft Research Agenda for open review on visceral leishmaniasis (VL) for feedback and comments from the wider VL research community. The deadline for comments is 5 July 2019.
World Malaria Day seminar 2019
Thursday, 18 April 2019

World Malaria Day seminar 2019 – Antimalarial treatments for vulnerable groups

Professor Joel Tarning, Head of Clinical Pharmacology at MORU, and Head WWARN’s Pharmacometrics Group will present highlights on population PK/PD modelling to assess the dosing of antimalarial drugs in vulnerable groups. Dr Makoto Saito will share highlights from his research on antimalarial treatme...
Mekong river, Vietnam. Credit: Thomas Depenbusch (Depi) CC by 2.0
Thursday, 4 April 2019

Research collaboration maps close to 10,000 samples on molecular markers surveyor, in near real-time

Research collaboration maps close to 10,000 samples on molecular markers surveyor, in near real-time.
BMC Medicine
Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Research highlight: New guidelines for reporting microbiology data

IDDO's Director Philippe Guerin and colleagues have recently published a framework for the reporting and interpretation of clinical microbiology data in BMC Medicine. Read the research.

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