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Roll Back Malaria aligns with sustainable development
Start date: 19 May 2015RBM Board Meeting agrees changes to capitalise on the gains made to date and to respond to new directions for development
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Global Fund Launches Online Platform for Strategy Development
Start date: 7 May 2015The Global Fund partnership has launched a consultation as part of a process to engage a wide range of stakeholders in developing its 2017-2021 strategy
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World Malaria Day: call to close gaps in prevention and treatment to defeat malaria
Start date: 1 May 2015World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on the global health community to urgently address significant gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. Despite dramatic declines in malaria cases and deaths since 2000, more than half a million lives are still lost to this preventable disease each year
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Malaria experts gather in London for World Malaria Day
Start date: 30 Apr 2015To mark World Malaria Day, the ACT Consortium hosted the symposium “Invest in the future: defeat malaria” on 23 April 2015 at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Fake malaria drugs not as common as previously reported
Start date: 20 Apr 2015A rigorous analysis of antimalarial drug quality conducted in Cambodia and Tanzania found no evidence of fake medicines, according to new research published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Researchers welcome reassuring findings but note poor quality drugs are still a problem.
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Medicamentos para a malária falsificados não são tão comuns como foi anteriormente indicado
Start date: 20 Apr 2015Os investigadores recebem com agrado estas conclusões tranquilizadoras, mas indicam que os medicamentos de qualidade reduzida continuam a constituir um problema.
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Les traitements falsifiés du paludisme pas aussi courants que ce qui avait été auparavant signalé
Start date: 20 Apr 2015Les chercheurs se réjouissent des résultats rassurants mais font remarquer que les médicaments de mauvaise qualité demeurent un problème.
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Fake antimalarials: meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on 28 May
Start date: 17 Apr 2015The ACT Consortium will host a drug quality meeting entitled "Fake antimalarials: start with the facts" on 28th May 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. Deadline to RSVP is 8 May.
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Widespread Artemisinin resistance could wipe out a decade of malaria investment
Start date: 17 Apr 2015The appearance of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Greater Mekong sub-region is a major threat to global health security, and would have a significant economic impact that may seriously undermine years of malaria investment, says Dr Tim France from the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance in “The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership World Malaria Day blog series”.
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Strong partners make malaria an endangered species in Kabuyu
Start date: 17 Apr 2015Read the latest Roll Back Malaria (RBM) partnership World Malaria Day blog by Elisabeth Wilhelm from MACEPA and Global Health Corps
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Symposium "Invest in the future: defeat malaria" in London
Start date: 15 Apr 2015To mark World Malaria Day, the ACT Consortium is convening a group of experts to discuss important aspects of malaria control.
Date: Thursday 23 April 2015
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm BST
Venue: John Snow Lecture Theatre, LSHTM, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK -
Malaria Indicator Survey presented in Malawi
Start date: 13 Apr 2015The Malawi National Malaria Control Programme launched the results of the 2014 Malawi Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) during the 2015 malaria research dissemination day in Lilongwe, an event attended by a wide range of health professionals and journalists.
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Access, targeting, safety and quality of ACT drugs at malaria conference
Start date: 31 Mar 2015Delegates debated policy implications for the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in the public and private health sectors. ACT Consortium members presented research results at the annual retreat of the Malaria Centre from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Cambridge, UK.
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Global Malaria Action Plan 2016-2030 open for public review
Start date: 23 Feb 2015After months of extensive and worldwide consultation in all sectors of society, a public review of the penultimate version of the GMAP2 - "Towards a Malaria Free-World: A Global Case for Investment and Action 2016-2030" - is open until 28 March.
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Artemisinin-resistant malaria close to border with India, study in Myanmar confirms
Start date: 20 Feb 2015Resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin is established in Myanmar and has reached within 25km of the Indian border, a study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases reports. Artemisinin resistance threatens to follow the same historical trajectory from Southeast Asia to the Indian subcontinent as seen in the past with other antimalarial medicines.
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