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Medical Product Alert N°5/2025: Substandard (contaminated) oral liquid medicines Alert summaryThis WHO Medical Product Alert refers to three substandard (contaminated) oral liquid medicines identified in India and reported to WHO on 8 October 2025.The affected products are oral…

📢📢Drug standards authorities in India have found a toxic ingredient in an oral liquid used to treat symptoms of cold, flu or coughs. See the latest @who.int medical product alert 👉 www.who.int/news/item/13...

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Understanding the global rise of artemisinin resistance: Insights from over 100,000 Plasmodium falciparum samples Spatiotemporal analysis of global kelch13 surveillance data reveals that artemisinin resistance is increasing in East Africa, mirroring patterns previously observed in Southeast Asia.

Great example of use of the #malaria database hosted by WWARN, read the new paper by the team at @gsugenomics.bsky.social Wellcome Sanger Institute

elifesciences.org/articles/105...

Special Issues in Pharmacovigilance in Resource-Limited Countries This book examines the state of pharmacovigilance systems in resource-limited countries in order to address the critical role that they play as drugs.

🌍💊 Exciting news!
@celinecaillet.bsky.social Co-Head of Medicine Quality Research Group, has written a chapter on how falsified and substandard medicines affect public health — part of a new book on pharmacovigilance in resource-limited settings.
📖 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We welcome Africa Oxford initiative Fellows Dawit Getachew Assefa & Professor Eliangiringa Kaale and look forward to working with them on projects across #VL #Trachoma #MedicineQuality

Fixed-dose ivermectin for Mass Drug Administration: Is it time to leave the dose pole behind? Insights from an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Author summary Ivermectin is an essential drug with proven safety and effectiveness against several parasitic infections. It plays a key role in Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programs targeting…

#ScienceReadForSunday: Fixed-dose ivermectin for Mass Drug Administration: Is it time to leave the dose pole behind? Insights from an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sharing #BeatNTDs

The Festival of #GlobalHealth continues this academic year with a screening of Transcendence, a documentary filmed over 10 years following the healing journey of four survivors of torture.
📆 Wed, Oct 22
⏲️ 4pm
📍 The Curzon Oxford
🔗https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/events/festival-of-global-health

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🌍 Africa #CDC Webinar 🧬

Discover how genomics, data science & innovation are transforming disease prevention and care across Africa.

🗓️ 16 Oct 2025 | ⏰ 13:00–14:30 EAT | 🌐 Online

🔗 Register now: shorturl.at/FZRog

Population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic analysis of benznidazole monotherapy and combination therapy with fosravuconazole in chronic Chagas disease (BENDITA) Author summary Chagas Disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, remains a major public health challenge, particularly in Latin America. Benznidazole and nifurtimox have been the standard…

#ScienceReadForSunday: Population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic analysis of benznidazole monotherapy and combination therapy with fosravuconazole in chronic #Chagas disease (BENDITA) journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Substandard and falsified medical products training toolkit #: Title #

Have you seen the new open-access the @WHO Training Toolkit on #Substandard and #Falsified #MedicalProducts designed to support design and implementation of #SFMP training
View here: www.who.int/tools/substa...
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View our #VisceralLeishmaniasis surveyor, an online interactive map that summarises #VL and #PKDL clinical trials across the world. Currently displaying 196 trials from 1980-2022, representing 35,000+ patients.
#ZeroLeish
www.iddo.org/tool/vl-surv...

Use the free to download case report form for #vl or #VisceralLeishmaniasis #HIV coinfection to collect data in a standardised format to accelerate research and #BeatNTDs
#kala_azar #ZeroLeish
www.iddo.org/vl/crf

Great to catch-up with partners from 10 countries for the FORESFA project’s annual meeting. We discussed the global challenge of #falsified & #substandard #antimicrobials & how to help advance tools to track, model & fight #SF medicines
🌍💊 #GlobalHealth
www.cghr.ox.ac.uk/research/med...

Accurate Measurement of Viral Clearance in Early-Phase Antiviral Studies in Coronavirus Disease 2019 To the Editor—Mateja et al [1] report a rigorous individual patient data meta-analysis from 9 large (n = 268 to n = 1939) randomized controlled trials cond

#ScienceReadForSunday: Accurate Measurement of Viral Clearance in Early-Phase Antiviral Studies in Coronavirus Disease 2019
academic.oup.com/jid/advance-...

New study find treatment for Chagas disease is excessive | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory A new study has found the current recommended treatment for Chagas disease could be given over a substantially shorter time period and still be as effective.

🚨 New research on #ChagasDisease 🚨
A paper in the Lancet Microbe finds the treatment for Chagas Disease is excessive & could be given over a substantially shorter time period & still be as effective
🔗 Read more: www.iddo.org/news/new-stu...
#GlobalHealth #NTDs
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social @dndi.org

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Noma is a devastating disease — yet far too little is known about it. A new study reveals just how serious the gaps in knowledge are; with limited information on the cause, how it develops, the… Prof Philippe Guerin talks about the global action needed to tackle noma disease

🎥 Our Director Prof Philippe Guerin talks about the devastating impact of #NTD #noma and highlights urgent research gaps revealed in a new global study.
🔗 youtu.be/vXchBDksSrQ
#GlobalHealth #NeglectedDiseases #WHO #HealthEquity
BS @bmj.com @who.int @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk

WWARN Clinical Trials Publication Library | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory A comprehensive, regularly updated compilation of all antimalarial clinical efficacy trials conducted and published since 1946.

Have you viewed our library which has been developed to support global #malaria research efforts. The library is a compilation of 1,457 published clinical efficacy studies from 1946 to 2022
www.wwarn.org/tools-resour...

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health Robert Böhm

Looking forward to #ECTMIH #Hamburg this week! Watch out for WHO/TDR Fellow Dawit Getachew Assefa presenting his poster on #VisceralLeishmaniasis on Oct 1. Find out more @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk booth 4
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Status and prospects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention among children in Sahelian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis In areas with seasonal malaria transmission, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) involves giving children a three-day course of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine once a month during the…

#ScienceReadForSunday: Status and prospects of seasonal malaria chemoprevention among children in Sahelian countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines & #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations & language #medswecantrust
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social MORU Bangkok
www.iddo.org/medicine-qua...

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Medicine Quality Research Group’s FORESFA team will meet Jesus College, #Oxford to continue their work investigating the global public health impact of #substandard & #falsified #antimicrobials @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk

Remapping parasite landscapes: Nationwide prevalence, intensity and risk factors of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis in Rwanda Author summary Worm infections, like soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis (SCH), continue to affect people of all ages in Rwanda. Despite efforts to control these infections…

#ScienceReadForSunday: Remapping parasite landscapes: Nationwide prevalence, intensity and risk factors of #schistosomiasis and #Soil-transmittedHelminthiasis in Rwanda
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

IDDO Data Sharing animation

Watch our #DataSharing animation below to see how we accelerate better treatments for people with neglected poverty-related diseases by generating research evidence through data re-use #NTDs www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o0z...

🚨🚨🚨Closing tomorrow...

We’re hiring a new Head of Data Engineering & Informatics to lead our data strategy & drive innovation
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
Based 📍 Oxford, UK | Deadline Sep 17, noon www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH725/h...

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