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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
Maps, mosquitoes, and malaria
January 25, 2010 – Cameron Taylor, a UNC undergrad, went to Lilongwe in the summer of 2008 to help lay the groundwork for a Phase 3 trial of the most promising malaria vaccine to date. Like most other sub-Saharan countries, Malawi is hard-hit by malaria, and the vaccine trial is gaining popularity among Malawians.
Endeavors Magazine (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
GSK gives price pledge on malaria vaccine
January 21, 2010 – GlaxoSmithKline, the UK-based pharmaceutical group, pledged to price its experimental malaria vaccine at just above cost, in an effort to ensure funding for its widespread use at a time of growing nervousness over donors’ willingness to support global health projects.
Financial Times
Les gorilles porteurs du parasite du paludisme
January 19, 2010 – Le parasite du paludisme le plus meurtrier en Afrique a été découvert chez des gorilles, alors que l’on pensait qu’il n’infectait que les humains.
Sciences-et-Avenir.com (France)
New malaria vaccine initiative aims to stunt parasite within mosquitoes
January 18, 2010 –
A new vaccine initiative has been launched to try to prevent the malaria parasite from developing inside mosquitoes.
Voice of America
A new strategy in the war on malaria
January 18, 2010 –
A nonprofit in Bethesda is developing a new weapon in the global vaccine arsenal against malaria.
Maryland Gazette
Hopes for a new kind of malaria vaccine
January 15, 2010 –
Malaria was eradicated in the U.S. by 1951, so Americans can be forgiven for not giving the disease much thought.
Time Magazine
Top 2009 Global Pandemic Happenings: Part 2
January 2, 2010 –
Number 2, An Effective Malaria Vaccine Coming Soon? In 2009, phase 3 human clinical trials began with the most promising malaria vaccine to date.
The Faster Times
New tools are needed for the fight against malaria, experts tell Congress
December 2, 2009 –
On November 18, malaria experts from around the world gathered in Washington, DC, to discuss the critical role of new drugs, vaccines, and other tools in the fight against malaria.
PATH
Bid to save children within grasp
November 5, 2009
– One of Africa's toughest challenges
— malaria — is finally getting the attention it deserves. For the past week in Nairobi, the world's leading malaria experts met at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference to review the latest strategies to fight the disease.
The Daily Nation (Kenya)
Will promising new malaria vaccine deliver?
November 5, 2009 – A new vaccine offering the best hope in the fight against the killer disease malaria could be on the market for African children in three to five years – but the real challenge may be in making sure that it's available to the babies and toddlers in some of the poorest, most remote areas of Africa.
ABC News
Malaria, nuova speranza
November 5, 2009
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L'annuncio dal Kenya, alla V Conferenza dedicata alla malattia. Ricerche voloci e promettenti, incoraggianti i risultati dei test. Ma i problemi restano i finanziamenti e l'accesso alle cure.
La Repubblica (Italy)
Lucha titánica contra la malaria
November 5, 2009
– La malaria es una enfermedad que causa alrededor de 1 millón de muertes al año; la mayor parte de las víctimas son niños y viven en África. Los investigadores presentan esta semana en Kenia sus últimos hallazgos en la búsqueda de una vacuna eficaz contra la enfermedad.
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Massive malaria vaccine trial has begun in Africa
November 4, 2009 – A massive Phase 3 trial of a malaria vaccine is now underway in Africa, with 5,000 children enrolled already out of a target population of 16,000. If results are favorable, marketing approval could be sought as early as 2012, making it the first commercial vaccine available for the disease, researchers said Tuesday in announcing the trial at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Malaria Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
Los Angeles Times
Health experts seek ways to eliminate malaria
November 4, 2009 – Health experts and researchers met in the Kenyan capital Tuesday to find ways of eradicating malaria, the world's deadliest infectious disease that kills around 900,000 people every year.
Agence France Presse
Africa trial for malaria vaccine
November 3, 2009 –
Scientists in Africa have begun trials of a malaria vaccine which, if successful, could save millions of lives on the continent and around the world.
Al Jazeera
Malaria vaccine a boon for humanity
November 3, 2009 –
An experimental vaccine designed to inoculate children against the parasite that causes deadly malaria appears to be safe and effective in preventing the disease in about half of those who take it.
The Aurora Sentinel
First malaria vaccine 'ready in 3–5 years'
November 3, 2009 – The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May, researchers said Tuesday.
Agence France Presse
Malaria vaccine hits Phase 3
November 3, 2009 –
The first-ever Phase 3 trial for a malaria vaccine has officially begun, with more than 5,000 African children already given the first round of malaria vaccine candidate RTS,S, researchers announced today (November 3) at a pan-African conference on malaria in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Scientist
Promising malaria vaccine being tested across Africa
November 3, 2009 –
Researchers behind the world's leading malaria vaccine candidate announced a major clinical trial involving thousands of children in seven African countries is well underway and on schedule. Top experts are converging in Nairobi from around the globe this week to attend the largest malaria conference in four years.
Voice of America
New vaccine offers hope in Africa's malaria battle
November 3, 2009 – A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year. "Malaria is one of the deadliest sicknesses for children," the nurse said — words that sent the young mother into a crumpled heap on the bed beside her wide-eyed baby boy, wrapped in a blue-and-yellow floral blanket.
The Associated Press
Initiative targets malaria eradication
November 3, 2009 – MVI, the main public–private partnership for developing vaccines against the disease, this week announced a major overhaul of the sorts of vaccine candidates it will support in the future, as well as the ways in which it will select them.
Nature
Malaria vaccine for Africa likely to be distributed from 2015
November 2, 2009 –
The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the "milestone moment" of the continent’s largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times.
The Times (UK)
What Africans need from product development partnerships
November 2, 2009 –
The product development partnership model has seen a number of achievements since they began developing drugs, vaccines, and vector control solutions in 1999. However, from an African perspective, these product development partnerships that receive funding to address neglected diseases create a number of challenges.
TropIKA.net
Africa about to give mankind top of the range malaria vaccine
November 2, 2009 – Scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough in discovering a vaccine for malaria. After more than 20 years of research and development of a vaccine, experts in Kenya say they are on the threshold of the most advanced malaria trial vaccine in the world.
The Standard (Kenya)
Malaria talks focus on vaccine
November 1, 2009 –
About 1,500 doctors and scientists have opened six days of talks in Nairobi to discuss research in the fight against malaria, including work on an experimental vaccine.
CBC (Canada)
Africa about to give mankind top of the range malaria vaccine
November 1, 2009 – Scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough in discovering a vaccine for malaria. After more than 20 years of research and development of a vaccine, experts in Kenya say they are on the threshold of the most advanced malaria trial vaccine in the world.
The Standard (Kenya)
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
