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Gates invests more money in innovative medicine - The Associated Press

Using microwaves to kill malaria parasites and developing a way to give fetuses immunity to HIV are among the dozen ideas the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks are worth more research dollars, after giving more than 500 scientists seed money to take an initial look at some far-out concepts.

Published
13 July 2011
From
Associated Press
Malaria
New study finds rise in global malaria R&D funds leads to largest ever pipeline of new products

A new analysis of progress in the global fight against malaria finds a four-fold increase in annual funding for malaria research and development (R&D) in just 16 years -- increasing from $121 million in 1993 to $612 million in 2009, with a particularly rapid increase since 2004. The funding has generated the strongest pipeline of malaria control and prevention products in history.

Published
28 June 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Malaria
HIV drugs can also target tropical parasites, study suggests

Scientists have discovered that drugs used to treat HIV may also one day become lifesaving drugs targeted at parasitic diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria.

Published
30 May 2011
From
Science Daily
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine
2020 vision of vaccines for malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS

In a new article, experts discuss recent advances in vaccine development. New tools including systems biology and structure-based antigen design could lead to a deeper understanding of mechanisms of protection and illuminate the path to rational vaccine development to lift the burden of the world's most devastating infectious diseases.

Published
25 May 2011
From
Science Daily
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Leading global health groups call on US to accelerate research

A coalition of 30 leading global health organizations that work on vaccines, drugs, and other tools and technologies that save lives today released a list of recommendations for US policymakers and regulators, calling for acceleration of scientific innovations and streamlining the approval of safe and affordable inventions in order to save more lives around the world.

Published
03 May 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
Malaria
Symptoms of primary HIV infection often mistaken for malaria, representing missed opportunity for testing and prevention

Almost two-thirds of a cohort of Kenyans newly infected with HIV had sought treatment for fever, and 40% of these received presumptive treatment for malaria, but only 12%

Published
28 April 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Malaria
€12 million ($16.9 million) project to develop new tools for malaria control

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has launched a collaborative project to develop and evaluate new tools to control the spread of malaria in Africa. AvecNet is a five year, €12 million ($16.9 million) project involving sixteen partners in Africa and Europe, funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework program.

Published
29 March 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
Malaria
RTS,S Offers 46 Percent Protection Against Malaria For At Least 15 Months After Vaccination, Study Finds

A Phase II trial published Friday in Lancet Infectious Diseases has shown that RTS,S, the "experimental malaria vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline provides African children with long-lasting protection" against malaria.

Published
14 January 2011
From
Kaiser Health News
Malaria
Cotrimoxazole better at preventing malaria than standard preventive treatment in pregnant women with HIV

Daily cotrimoxazole treatment significantly reduced malaria parasitaemia and anaemia in pregnant women with HIV infection when compared to intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a study in Malawi

Published
14 January 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Epidemiology
Focus on HIV prevents us from curing a billion people, say scientists

Experts say governments treat 'big name' ailments like AIDS and malaria when many which kill far more people in the developing world could be eradicated cheaply.

Published
07 November 2010
From
The Observer
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

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We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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