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Hope as malaria vaccine nears home
August 19, 2010 – Malaria, the disease that causes thousands of death, majority of whom are pregnant women and children below the age of six may soon subside, thanks to the initiative to engage Uganda in the process of implementing a decision to use the malaria vaccine once it is out for use.
Daily Monitor (Uganda)
MVI receives high marks in key areas of its work
August 12, 2010 – A recent evaluation of the operations and research portfolio of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative assesses as "outstanding" MVI's engagement with industry and its use of milestones to measure progress. The report was conducted by FasterCures' Philanthropy Advisory Service (PAS), which works to promote informed investment decisions among philanthropists. Published in early 2010, the report describes as "strong" MVI's work in a range of other areas, including scientific advancement and vaccine access and delivery. The report is part of a series that looks at specific diseases and assesses the nonprofit institutions doing medical research on them. To access the report, PAS asks that interested parties visit the site and register to download the report (a simple and free process). You may also contact MVI for a copy.
FasterCures
Can malaria be beaten?
August 5, 2010 – When I see a packet of malaria pills I think of that famous Clint Eastwood line from Dirty Harry, delivered as he pointed his .44 magnum at a bank robber and neither of them could remember how many shots he had fired, or whether there was still one left in the chamber. "The question you have got to ask yourself is: do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"
The Independent (UK)
De nouveaux leaders et de nouveaux outils peuvent transformer la lutte contre le paludisme
July 28, 2010 – On se souviendra du sommet de l’Union Africaine de cette semaine pour son courage. Quelques semaines seulement après une attaque terroriste dévastatrice à Kampala, l’Union Africaine s’est malgré tout réunie dans la capitale de l’Ouganda pour débattre de nos priorités les plus urgentes.
Sud Quotidien (Senegal)
Weighty goals for African Union summit
July 28, 2010 – The annual African Union summit came to a close on Tuesday after multilateral talks in the Ugandan capital of Kampala that covered everything from health to terrorism. The meeting came two weeks after terrorist bombings in the city by al-Shabaab, a Somali insurgency that itself was the subject of much discussion at the summit.
The Atlantic Wire
New leaders, new tools can transform fight against malaria
July 26, 2010 – This week’s African Union meeting will be remembered for its courage. Just a few weeks after a devastating terrorist attack in Kampala, the African Union is still convening in Uganda’s capital city to tackle our most urgent priorities.
Citizen (Tanzania)
Feature: A world without malaria
July 13, 2010 – Australian researchers have made exciting progress towards a malaria vaccine, and the past year has seen major research developments that raise real hope that malaria can even be eradicated.
Australian Life Scientist
The 'do unto others' malaria vaccine
May 14, 2010 – Once neglected, research on transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) for malaria is gaining new prominence. It used to sound like a far-out idea: a malaria vaccine that would use humans to generate antibodies and deliver them to mosquitoes, with the aim of preventing the insects from spreading the disease. Until recently, such TBVs had received scant attention.
Science
That was then but this is now: malaria research in the time of an eradication agenda
May 14, 2010 – The global research community must take up the challenge to work toward the eradication of malaria. In the past, malaria research has focused on drugs and vaccines that target the blood stage of infection, and mainly on the most deadly species, Plasmodium falciparum, all of which is justified by the need to prevent and treat the disease. This work remains critically important today.
Science
Science: as challenges change, so does science
May 14, 2010 – Although nobody believes that it is possible in the next 10, 20, or even 30 years, the call to eradicate malaria, combined with the plummeting disease burden, are already reshaping the scientific agenda.
Science
Bill Gates takes on global challenges
April 30, 2010 – Entrepreneur turned philanthropist Bill Gates received the Bower Award for Business Leadership on Thursday from the Franklin Institute. Earlier in the day, he spent 30 minutes answering questions from an Inquirer reporter on such diverse issues as global health, nuclear energy and electronic privacy.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lipoxen receives positive results for ImuXen candidates for influenza and malaria
April 28, 2010 – Lipoxen (AIM: LPX) has received positive results for two of its ImuXen proprietary candidates, one devolped as a novel influenza vaccine and the other as a malaria vaccine. Lipoxen's proprietary ImuXen technology uses lipids, natural substances found in the human body, to entrap active ingredients—like antigens—to ensure direct delivery into the appropriate cells of the immune system.
ProactiveInvestors.co.uk
Closer than ever
April 27, 2010 – Dr. Lusingu is a Principal Investigator with the Joint Malaria Programme, a collaboration between National Institute for Medical Research of Tanzania, the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Copenhagen
ONE Blog
New malaria vaccine promising
April 27, 2010 – The new malaria vaccine developed by British researchers yielded success in its second round of testing. Now, the world watches and waits for results of the latest round. As researchers pioneer the testing of a new vaccine that could protect against malaria, health workers and development practitioners working in Africa are optimistic that the illness will soon meet the same demise as polio.
Soschildrensvillages.com
Kenya closer to vaccine against killer disease
April 26, 2010 – Kenya could have its first malaria vaccine by 2015, according to researchers at Kenya Medical Research Institute and the Centres of Disease Control. The third phase of RTS,S the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate began last year.
Daily Nation
The day after World Malaria Day
April 26, 2010 – Nearly three years ago, Bill and Melinda Gates called upon the world to eradicate malaria (Seattle PI). That upset a lot of people, many of them specialists in malaria, largely because it was regarded as violating Voltaire's warning against seeking perfection at the expense of the good.
A Page from Tom Paulson
On the front line against malaria: Army medical researchers in Kenya mark World Malaria Day 2010
April 26, 2010 – Hundreds of local people gathered Sunday at Kit Mikayi primary school to mark World Malaria Day 2010 with educational skits, songs and dance. Among them was Lt. Col. Maria Bovill, director of US Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya's Kombewa clinic—where research into the world's first malaria vaccine is underway.
AllAfrica.com
Three conditions needed for true "decade of vaccines"
April 23, 2010 – Recently, Bill Gates injected new energy and resources into the immunization field with an unprecedented pledge of US$10 billion through 2020 for vaccine development and delivery. It was a great start to the new decade. From my vantage point at one of the world’s largest vaccine companies, I can identify three conditions that will be needed for the next ten years to live up to the designation of the "decade of vaccines."
ONE Blog
Africa: World must retain focus on anti-malaria fight, says expert
April 23, 2010 – Despite recent achievements in fighting malaria, the international community must not become complacent or distracted, says Dr. Steven Phillips, medical director of global issues and projects for ExxonMobil. Phillips, who also serves on the board of Malaria No More, spoke with allAfrica.com ahead of World Malaria Day, reflecting on progress in the fight against the disease.
AllAfrica.com
Vaccine development: Hopeful results lead to first large-scale trial
April 22, 2010 –
Over the past year, 9,000 babies and young children in seven African countries have received a shot of the first malaria vaccine to undergo a large-scale clinical trial. Eventually as many as 16,000 children will receive the so-called RTS,S vaccine.
Financial Times
Guest column: The numbers tell a promising story for World Malaria Day 2010
April 22, 2010 –
As a businessman, I track statistics and focus intensely on the bottom line. For World Malaria Day 2010, April 25, the numbers tell a promising story.
Financial Times
Disease development: New strain develops ways round immunity
April 22, 2010 –
Most malaria research and writing focuses on Plasmodium falciparum, the most deadly of the four species of parasite that cause human malaria.
Financial Times
World Malaria Day 2010: Africans advance quest for a malaria vaccine
April 20, 2010 –
On World Malaria Day 2010, the international community marks a historic milestone in the fight against malaria. This past year, we launched a Phase 3 efficacy trial of the world's most advanced malaria vaccine candidate in 11 research centers spanning seven African countries.
Modern Ghana
Dernière ligne droite pour un vaccin antipaludisme
March 17, 2010 –
On l'espère depuis des décennies, il existera peut-être dans quelques années. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire de la médecine, un candidat vaccin contre le paludisme est entré, depuis presque un an, en phase 3 d'essais cliniques en Afrique.
Le Monde
Questions as mileposts of progress
February 4, 2010 – Recently Melinda Moree (newly appointed CEO of BioVentures for Global Health) and I attended an interesting dinner of global health experts in New York... Melinda remarked on the progress with malaria vaccines where the questions now are all about who will pay for it, and how will we roll the vaccine out in affected countries.
Huffington Post
Gates promises US$10 billion for vaccine push
February 1, 2010 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged to spend more than US$10 billion on vaccine development and deployment in the next decade.
SciDev.net
Malaria vaccine is in the works
February 1, 2010 – A vaccine against malaria to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children a year could be available as early as 2012, according to African scientists who are testing the new drug.
GlobalPost
