Social science team develop guidance for quality assurance in qualitative research

Social scientists from the ACT Consortium have developed Quality Assessment and Strengthening (QAS) guidelines for qualitative research. The Global Health Trials website published the sample protocol and welcome feedback as part of this month’s theme on Quality Assurance.

Attending ASTMH 2012?

The ACT Consortium has a strong turnout at ASTMH this year, with investigators presenting 10 Oral presentations in Scientific Sessions, participating in or chairing 5 symposia, and showing 14 posters.

Medicine sellers perspectives on their role in providing health care in North-West Cameroon: a qualitative study

Increasing recognition of the importance of medicine sellers in low-resource settings has emerged alongside assumptions that their motives and capacities primarily relate to profit maximization. This article suggests a need to reframe thinking about the role of medicine sellers in developing country health systems.

Caregiver acceptability of test-based management of malaria in rural Ghana

This month's featured publication from ACTc Project 8 (Effects of Restricting the Use of Artesunate Plus Amodiaquine Combination Therapy to Malaria Cases Confirmed by a Dipstick Test: A Cluster Randomised Control Trial) recently published in PLoS ONE

Call for malaria clinical researchers

Please participate in our online survey about the methods used by malaria clinical researchers to question clinical drug trial participants about their ill health and treatment use in order to record adverse events, medical histories and medication-taking.

Mozzies on the run!

Joint Safety Symposium at ASTMH 2011: Assessing the safety of anti-malarial drugs in Africa

Do you conduct clinical trials on anti-malarial treatment? We want your input!

Sharing Lessons Learned: Designing and Evaluating Complex Interventions

ACTc Director David Schellenberg chairs launch of RBM's 'A Decade of Partnership and Results' Report

World Mosquito Day tea dance celebrations at LSHTM

Targeting zero: sustaining success in the control of malaria

WHO guidance for selecting and procuring malaria RDTs now available

malERA - PLoS Medicine publishes special issue on malaria elimination

The British Government unveil landmark plans to tackle malaria