Newsletter Mar 2014

19 Feb 2015
WWARN Published Date
  • Image removed.·         More than 230 partners have shared their data with WWARN, gathering more than 90,000 patient records. Discover the story behind this approach.
  • ·         We are delighted to announce a partnership with the Institut Pasteur in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to lead WWARN’s In Vitro Module. Didier Ménard will direct WWARN’s in vitro activities together with the support of Benoit Witkowski.
  • ·         LSHTM, in partnership with WWARN, will develop a pooled analysis of Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte carriage in regions of differing malaria endemicity.
  • ·         A new model supports public health experts to carry out surveillance of antimalarial use before drug resistance emerges or spreads to Africa. 
  • ·         WWARN is forming a collaborative study group to assess the parasite clearance times for artemisinin combination therapeutic (ACT) efficacy trials conducted throughout Asia in the past decade.