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October 2009 articles that mention MVI

Malaria: a research agenda for the eradication era
October 31, 2009 – The world's largest meeting on malaria, the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference, convenes in Nairobi, Kenya, on Nov 1–6. Since the last MIM meeting in 2005, the malaria landscape has transformed dramatically.
The Lancet

Malaria vaccine in final stretch
October 30, 2009 – The excitement at GSK's Belgium-based vaccine research center is palpable as we make our last preparations to leave for Nairobi, Kenya, for next week's MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference.  MIM stands for Multilateral Initiative on Malaria and it is the world's largest malaria meeting.
More Than Medicine

Glaxo gives price pledge as malaria shot holds hope
October 28, 2009 – More than 5,500 children across Africa have been given an experimental new malaria vaccine and the British drugmaker behind it, GlaxoSmithKline, promised on Wednesday that price would be no hurdle if it works.
Reuters

Interpreting measures of vaccine efficacy from malaria vaccine trials
October 27, 2009 – A change is proposed in the way researchers report efficacy in clinical trials, in order to help policymakers get a better picture of how effective a vaccine actually is.
TropIKA.net

Seeking a malaria vaccine
October 16, 2009 – Since May 2009, Bagamoyo in Tanzania has been part of the world's largest and most advanced clinical trial for a malaria vaccine ever. Healthy Horizons investigates.
CNBC