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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Intermittent Preventive Treatment Gives Additional Protection Even To Children Sleeping Under Bed Nets
Diadier Diallo
NAIROBI, KENYA: Diadier Diallo of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, co-ordinator of a trial of intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) for children in Burkina Faso and Mali, told Peter Goodwin about the success of his group’s study using full dose malaria treatment among children for prophylaxis, as reported at the 5th MIM Pan African Malaria Conference, Nairobi.
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Malaria Elimination Prospects Are Good In Many Regions
Geoffrey Targett
NAIROBI, KENYA: Geoffrey Targett Professor of Parasitology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and member of the international Malaria Elimination Group, told the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference in Nairobi why there are good prospects for eliminating malaria altogether from some regions in the near future in the quest ultimately for global eradication. He outlined his reasons for optimism to Peter Goodwin.
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Reversible ADP Antagonists: New Alternatives To Clopidogrel For Anti-Platelet Therapy In Elective PCI
Deepak Bhatt
ORLANDO—Deepak Bhatt from the VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, talks with Peter Goodwin about findings from the CHAMPION-PLATFORM study (using cangrelor in PCI) and the PLATO study (with ticagrelor in ACS)—testing reversible ADP antagonist agents as anti-platelet therapy, as reported at the American Heart Association Annual Meeting held in Orlando.
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Consortium To Optimise World Use Of Artemisinin Combination Treatments For Malaria
Bianca D'Souza
During the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, Bianca D’Souza, Manager of the “ACT Consortium”, explained to Peter Goodwin how this newly formed international group of experts is working to help make sure the WHO-recommended artemisinin combination treatments (ACTs) for malaria are reaching the people who need them, and that problems associated with their distribution, quality and availability are addressed.
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“ACT Consortum” Investigates Millions of Lives At Stake From Substandard, Degraded And Fake Anti-Malarial Drugs
Harparkash Kaur
The problem of artemisinin combination treatments (ACTs) in malaria which are ineffective because of poor storage, manufacture, or criminal counterfeiting was addressed in Nairobi at the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference by Harparkash Kaur of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine—a member of the recently-formed: ACT Consortium. After her talk she discussed her data and the efforts the consortium is making to resolve the issue with Peter Goodwin.
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“ACT Consortium” Pools Top Multinational Brains To Implement Artemisinin Combinations In Malaria
Anthony Mbonye
Ugandan Health Ministry Commissioner Dr Anthony Mbonye and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine scientist Professor David Schellenberg are just two of the multinational members of the recently-formed ACT consortium set up to pool the expertise of leading scientists and public health movers and shakers in both the developed and developing world to fight malaria with optimal use of the best drugs: artemisinin combination treatments, or ACTs. After a symposium devoted to the work of the new consortium—held at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference held in Nairobi—they talked about their current programme and the goals in sight.
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Intermittent Preventive Treatment On Top of “Home Management” Cuts Malaria In Under Fives
Harry Tagbor
Dr Harry Tagbor, of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, presented results at the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in which intermittent preventive treatment with malarial drugs was given to children under five. Afterwards he talked with Peter Goodwin about his team’s promising finding of a reduction of malaria infection.
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Preventive Malaria Treatment For Infants Reduces Infection Rates
Ilona Carneiro and
David Schellenberg
Ilona Carneiro and David Schellenberg from The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine presented data at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan African Malaria Conference, Nairobi, Kenya showing how the technique called intermittent preventive treatment (ITP) for infants has reduced malaria infections in a region of Tanzania. After their symposium they talked with Peter Goodwin about the advantages and cost-savings this brings through combining drug treatment with routine infant vaccinations.
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New Ways Of Using Malaria Drugs Bring Promise For Control
Brian Greenwood
Brian Greenwood, Professor of Tropical Medicine at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, discusses the presentation he gave to the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria (MIM) Pan African Malaria Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, held 2-6 November, 2009, in which he explained that combining prophylactic with therapeutic use of malarial drugs can play an important part in programmes for control of malaria.
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Organic Foods And Health: Scientific Evidence Versus Emotional Belief
Alan Dangour
Even though organically produced foods were shown recently by a systematic and comprehensive scientific review to have no nutritional or heath-benefit related differences from conventionally-farmed foods, a debate has raged about this finding which was revealed by Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in his group’s publication in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In one of the prestigious Bloomsbury International Nutritional Seminars in London recently he discussed the evidence on organic food, and he commented to Peter Goodwin on the emotions that this has stirred up.
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The London School of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine’s Audio News reports from the 5th Multilateral Initiative On Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference, Nairobi, Kenya, November 2-6, 2009
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