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PDP Press Releases/ statements

IAVI 

 • 18 May: HIV Vaccine Awareness Day 2026: African research leading the charge

• 6 Apr: IAVI begins first-in-human Phase 1 trial of single-dose Marburg virus vaccine candidate

IVCC

 • 9 Apr: Working with endemic country partners to shape the future of vector control

 • 24 Apr: Kim Johnson MP visits malaria researchers ahead of World Malaria Day

 • 24 Apr: Advancing tools for outdoor mosquito control: IVCC and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences launch new collaboration

TB Alliance

• 6 Apr: TB Alliance Congratulates Bruce Carter on His Appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire

• 12 Apr: New Report: LIFT-TB Helped Cut Time to Global Uptake of Improved Drug-Resistant TB Treatments from Nearly a Decade to Three Years

• 14 Apr: Closing the Gap Between Impact and Innovation

• 24 Apr: Academic Study Finds TB Alliance’s Access Approach Successfully Accelerated Uptake of New TB Treatments

GARDP 

• May 8: A Policy Brief for Member States: Strengthening Global Health Architecture Reform

Population Council

 • 4 Feb: Contraline and Population Council Execute Global Exclusive License Agreement for NES/T Male Contraception Gel

PATH

• 16 Apr: Going the distance: House-to-house mobilizers sustain progress on malaria vaccine rollout in Nigeria

• 20 Apr: Decentralizing molecular diagnostics: Four insights from user evaluations

MMV

• 8 Apr: Global partnership delivers first real-world evidence that new tools can accelerate elimination of relapsing malaria

• 23 Apr: First children receive single‑dose medicine for relapsing malaria in Brazil’s Yanomami community, offering families new hope

• 24 Apr: WHO prequalification of Coartem® Baby marks breakthrough in treating malaria in newborns and young infants

DNDi

• 12 May: DNDi welcomes GHIT support for global evaluation and registration of fosravuconazole for eumycetoma, in collaboration with Eisai

• 13 May: DNDi’s briefing note for 79th World Health Assembly

• 15 May: DNDi statement on hantavirus outbreak: ‘Investment in pandemic preparedness efforts remains insufficient.’

FIND

•  9 Apr: Dr Ayoade Alakija Appointed to the Accra Reset initiative

IVI

• 8 Apr: IVI appoints In-Kyu Yoon as Deputy Director General of Integrated Development and Pandemic/Outbreak Readiness

• 15 Apr: Nordic Conference Report: How The Nordic Vaccine Ecosystem Can Reach Its Full Potential

• 29 Apr: IVI Global Council convenes in Manila to shape long-term strategic direction and advance vaccine self-reliance

EVI

• 6 Feb: A 4-dose RTS,S malaria vaccine schedule provides higher protection against severe malaria than a 3-dose schedule

MDGH

• 30 Jan: MDGH starts its Phase 2 clinical trial of dovramilast in people with leprosy type 2 reaction

PDP Funder News/Announcements

• 18 May: Rethinking the future of global health: a global dialogue. Wellcome

• 3 Apr: Announcement of Changes in the Selection Committee. GHIT

• 13 May: Commission strengthens global health security with new Global Health Resilience Initiative. European Commission

• 22 Apr: Total investment of approx. USD 8.5 million in malaria and NTD R&D projects with partners including MMV, GSK, Tanabe Pharma, Eisai and DNDi. GHIT

Funder Announcement Archives

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     •     2013 PDP Funder Announcements

New PDP Publications

•  25 Apr: Rethinking antibodies for infectious diseases?. IAVI

Other Reports/ Publications

• 10 Mar: Tools to fight AMR exist, but industry-wide action is needed to tilt the battle against superbugs. Access to Medicines Foundation

• 13 Mar: From Commitments to Action: Practical Pathways for Health Financing in Africa. Global Health Strategies

Related Press Releases/ Announcements/Articles

• 1 May: UC Davis researchers develop antibody-based test to detect active TB as alternative to culture. 360Dx

• 1 May: WHO delays pandemic treaty amid pathogen-sharing dispute. Reuters

• 1 May: WHO Member States agree to extend negotiations on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex. WHO

• 1 Apr: Africa Urged to Explore Innovative Financing to Strengthen Health Research and Development. Health Business

• 2 May: First malaria drug for babies is approved in ‘major public health milestone’. The Guardian

• 2 Apr: Accelerating Action for Pandemic Preparedness in 2026: Joint Statement by IPPS, CEPI, FIND and DNDi. IPPS

• 2 Apr: Congo says its mpox outbreak is over after 2 years and more than 2,200 suspected deaths. AP

• 2 Apr: Civil Society Calls for Greater Engagement in Rollout of HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir As Global Tensions Grow. Health Journalists Network

• 3 May: The bias in medical research: Africa carries a huge disease burden but is missing from clinical trials. The Conversation

• 3 May: Science can accelerate malaria control — with the right leadership. Gulf News

• 4 May: Money Matters: Who funds global health — and by how much?. Devex

• 4 May: Zambian families level up malaria defences with vaccination. Gavi

• 4 May: TB costs in poor countries exceed those of HIV, estimates suggest. CIDRAP

• 5 May: Africa looks inward as global health funding dries up. Devex

• 5 May: Pandemic treaty annex to miss World Health Assembly submission. Devex

• 5 May: Malaria vaccine ‘no magic bullet’ for elimination. SciDevNet

• 5 May: Controlled human malaria infection in adults identify combinations of merozoite antigens associated with clinical immunity. Nature

• 5 May: Could nasal vaccines replace syringes?. Gavi

• 5 May: Opinion: Africa moving toward self-reliance in the health sector. Africa Science

• 5 May: World ‘unprepared’ for next pandemic as countries fail to agree on sharing information, tests and vaccines. The Guardian

• 5 May: The African Medicines Agency is the missing link in global health security. The Telegraph

• 6 May: Expanding Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra and lateral flow urine lipoarabinomannan testing for diagnosis of tuberculosis among adults living with HIV admitted to hospitals in Tanzania and Mozambique (EXULTANT): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet

• 6 May: Non-sputum testing: an incomplete bridge across the tuberculosis diagnostic gap. The Lancet

• 6 May: Throwing basket of diagnostics, drugs, vaccines and mozzie stoppers at malaria has not stopped the disease. Mail & Guardian

• 6 May: Restoring certainty to global health regulation. BMJ

• 6 May: Fourteen days to recovery from kala-azar. Nature

• 6 May: New inhibitor design provides a blueprint for effective malaria treatments. NewsMedical

• 7 May: Reform of the global health architecture and the UN80 Initiative A joint process to support reforms. WHO

• 7 May: Scientists working to create hantavirus vaccine. BBC

• 7 May: Artemisinin partial resistance at a crossroads: evidence for continental variation in Plasmodium falciparumclearance phenotypes. The Lancet

• 7 May: A Prize for Repurposing Drugs for Neglected Diseases. CGD

• 8 May: New evidence confirms malaria vaccine saves child lives and will have high impact in wider rollout. WHO

• 8 May: Expert comment: Malaria vaccine averts 1 in 8 deaths in young children. LSHTM

• 8 May: Qiagen plans AI risk assessment tool, track-based automation for latent TB testing. 360Dx

• 9 May: Zoliflodacin: non-inferior, but not equivalent?. The Lancet

• 9 May: Impact of introducing RTS,S/AS01E malaria vaccine on mortality in young children in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi: an observational evaluation of a cluster-randomised implementation programme. The Lancet

• 9 May: This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children. The New York Times

• 9 Apr: Next-Generation Monoclonal Antibodies: Another Promising Approach to Malaria Prevention. NEJM

• 9 Apr: Efficacy and safety of VPM1002 and Immuvac in preventing tuberculosis: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (PreVenTB trial). BMJ

• 9 Apr: Shionogi secures BARDA contract for cefiderocol for resistant infections, bioterror threats. CIDRAP

• 10 May: The Guardian view on the WHO pandemic treaty: the west’s fantasy negotiations have put the world at risk. The Guardian

• 11 May: Global health reform cannot wait for a new world order. Middle powers must act now. Chatham House

• 11 May: A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests. The New York Times

• 11 May: Dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine versus chloroquine for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria with concurrent or delayed high-dose primaquine in Brazil (Curavivax): an open-label, single-centre, randomised clinical trial. The Lancet

• 12 May: Global health security and pandemic preparedness: Europe’s leadership challenge. BMJ

• 12 May: Brazil’s big bet on mosquitos. Nature

• 12 May: Three Issues to Watch at WHA79: WHO Funding, Prioritisation, and Leadership of Global Health Architecture Reform. CGD

• 12 May: Mapping of Organisational Mandates Against Future Priority Health Functions. MOPAN

• 12 May: Major study confirms impact of the malaria vaccine, saving lives and reducing hospitalisations. Gavi

• 12 May: What the Hantavirus outbreak tells us about preparing for Disease X. CEPI

• 12 May: Dengue outpaces virus-blocking mosquitoes in Brazil. France24

• 12 May: Africa CDC and Aspen Pharmacare aim to boost vaccine output in Africa. Reuters

• 13 May: New malaria vaccine offers long-lasting protection without refrigeration. News Medical

• 13 May: New compound shows promise as single-dose malaria treatment. News Medical

• 13 May: Advancing a new global health leap. Gavi

• 13 May: EU Launches Bold Global Health Resilience Initiative Amidst Geopolitical Ruptures. Health Policy Watch

• 13 May: EU trumpets its reliability on global health as US slashes foreign aid. Politico

• 13 May: US launches partnership for American-developed mosquito repellent. Devex

• 13 May: Six key developments in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Nature

• 13 May: Centering Women, Children, and Adolescents in Global Health Reform. Think Global Health

• 14 May: Innovation without access is not progress: what the EU's new health initiative must deliver. Unitaid

• 14 May: Scientists map research gaps between West Africa and a lassa fever vaccine. Modern Ghana

• 14 May: Rethinking Global Health Reform After COVID-19: Legitimacy Before Authority. IHP

• 14 May: The global health system must radically change to survive and thrive. The Telegraph

• 14 May: Antibody fine specificity correlates with protection from malaria for the RTS,S vaccine in young African children: A post hoc analysis of a phase IIb randomised controlled trial. PLOS

• 14 May: Global Health Needs More than Money. Health Policy Watch

• 14 May: Revamping Global Health Architecture: Reforms by "Reports" [WHA79 PRIMER]. Geneva Health Files

• 15 May: Gavi to propose new incentives aimed at advancing vaccine manufacturing in Africa. Gavi

• 15 May: First hantavirus, now Ebola: What two outbreaks reveal about global preparedness. STAT

• 15 May: Beyond borders: how HERA can unlock global health as a true public good through data and knowledge sharing. CEPS

• 15 May: Global Health in 2026: Hard Truths from 11 Leaders. Devex

• 15 May: What does WHO need to do to actually remain relevant?. Devex

• 15 May: Ebola & Hantavirus Outbreaks Foreshadow the World Health Assembly. Geneva Health Files

• 15 May: "Africa is Not a Real Market:" The Fragmentation Problem Behind Africa’s Health Manufacturing Ambitions. Africa Health Watch

• 17 May: WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. The New York Times

• 18 May: Germany pledges an additional €25 million to WHO. Devex

• 18 May: John Mahama warns health reforms must consider mergers, new mandates. Devex

• 18 May: Outbreak Threats, Geopolitical Divides and Financial Crises Hover Over 79th World Health Assembly. Health Policy Watch

• 18 May: With no approved vaccine for Ebola outbreak, experts weigh testing a long shot. STAT

• 18 May: Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak. Science

• 18 May: Race begins to trial Ebola drugs amid current outbreak. Nature

• 19 May: Member States Support Extended Deadline for Talks on Pandemic Agreement Annex. Health Policy Watch

• 19 May: WHO considers use of experimental vaccines as Ebola cases and deaths rise in DRC. The Guardian

• 19 May: African Health leaders forge unified position on Global Health Reform ahead of WHA79 in Geneva. Tech Review Africa

• 21 Apr: Africa CDC, WHO and Partners Review Progress on Mpox Response. Africa CDC

• 21 Apr: Who controls South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout? Not South Africa. Health-e News

• 21 Apr: Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising. Nature

• 21 Apr: Inside a Ugandan bat cave: how the deadly Marburg virus jumps from animals to humans. Gavi

• 21 Apr: Gates Foundation to Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties. WSJ

• 21 Apr: US aid cuts undermine HIV prevention in South Africa, report finds. Reuters

• 21 Apr: Global health forward: Navigating scarcity in a fractured world through solidarity, equity, and shared responsibility. The Harvard Gazette

• 21 Apr: CEPI and Pasteur Network partner to advance regional vaccine R&D and outbreak preparedness. CEPI

• 21 Apr: AU and EU strengthen their Health Partnership, launch initiatives under Global Gateway. Africa CDC

• 21 Apr: Holding the line: How innovation could combat drug and insecticide resistance in malaria. GHTC

• 21 Apr: Roche provides updates on current, potential future TB test offerings at ESCMID. 360Dx

• 22 Apr: Resolving Africa’s R&D capacity clustering: why preparedness must move beyond a handful of hubs. Impact Global Health

• 22 Apr: Africa’s malaria fight needs stronger local research. Gavi

• 22 Apr: No One Wins If Multilateralism for Health Loses. Think Global Health

• 22 Apr: How a rapid-response bird flu vaccine trial is shaping global preparedness. CEPI

• 22 Apr: The future of diagnostics in Africa. Nature Medicine

• 22 Apr: Major global health funding to tackle drug-resistant infections. NIHR

• 23 Apr: World Malaria Day: Uganda vaccine rollout shows promise. DW

• 23 Apr: Ending malaria in Africa: 5 essential reads on gains and challenges. The Conversation

• 23 Apr: ‘We are worried’: Malaria mounts a comeback after slashed US funding. CIDRAP

• 23 Apr: Indigenous Brazilian Children Are First in World to Get Paediatric Malaria Treatment. Health Policy Watch

• 23 Apr: WHO prequalifies Rapigen malaria tests detecting novel Plasmodium antigen. CIDRAP

• 23 Apr: How African Regional Agencies Can Shape Global Health Reform. Think Global Health

• 24 Apr: Two years after the introduction of the malaria vaccine, Burkina Faso celebrates its impact. Gavi

• 24 Apr: Insights on global health reform discussions, trends and perspectives: April 2026. Partnership for International Politics and Diplomacy for Health

• 24 Apr: WHO prequalifies first-ever malaria treatment for newborns and infants, adds new diagnostic tests. WHO

• 24 Apr: Malaria vaccines scale up in Africa amid new threats. Nature

• 24 Apr: Africa Needs Urgent Action to Protect ‘Miracle’ Malaria Drugs. Health Policy Watch

• 24 Apr: Malaria vaccines expand across Africa as Gavi warns of funding issues. People’s Gazette

• 24 Apr: Gavi boss on Rwanda’s potential as a 'hub for pandemic response'. The New Times

• 24 Apr: The Promise of New Vaccines in the Fight Against Malaria. JHU

• 24 Apr: Orchestrating faster access to products of non-profit R&D: a case study of a novel regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis. BMJ

• 24 Apr: Reshaping global health architecture: African health sovereignty as the foundation of global health equity and security. Journal of Public Health in Africa

• 25 Apr: Antibody-based malaria prevention in an intense perennial transmission setting. The Lancet

• 24 Apr: Why don’t proven health interventions reach people who need them?. Devex

• 25 Apr: Malaria vaccines could help stop 600,000 deaths a year – but not if aid dries up. The Independent

• 25 Apr: World Malaria Day: Malaria defies medications despite ongoing eradication. The Guardian Nigeria

• 25 Apr: Malaria vaccines are working. We cannot afford to lose momentum. Gavi

• 25 Apr: UK backs one in five malaria tools in development - as campaigners warn “malaria science superpower” status must be maintained. Impact Global Health

• 25 Apr: ‘Astonishing’ discovery could help save children from deadly disfiguring condition. The Guardian

• 25 Apr: Accelerating action to end malaria: A test of Africa’s Health Security and Sovereignty. Africa CDC

• 25 Apr: University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India agree licence to advance the next-generation multi-stage malaria vaccine candidate component. Oxford University

• 26 Apr: Developed Countries Propose ‘Hybrid’ Model Ahead of Pandemic Agreement Talks. Health Policy Watch

• 27 Apr: Why are we seeing more outbreaks of the deadliest diseases?. The Telegraph

• 27 Apr: Making Better Vaccine Choices in a Shifting Global Health Landscape. Health Policy Watch

• 28 Apr: Malaria Funding Crisis and Drug Resistance Compel African Investment. Health Policy Watch

• 28 Apr: A better treatment for river blindness is available, but its rollout is complicated. Nature

• 28 Apr: Global Dx compact aims to boost use of clinical testing to tackle antimicrobial resistance. 360Dx

• 28 Apr: Partnering with Philanthropy: Strategies and Lessons from Development Agencies. CGD

• 28 Apr: CARB-X awards funding to AdJane to advance its nOMV platform-derived vaccine for the prevention of gonorrhea. CARB-X

• 28 Apr: Africa CDC Launches African High-Level Ministerial Committee to Shape Global Health Architecture Reform. Africa CDC

• 29 Apr: Examining The Narrative of Incentivizing Pharma Industry Participation in The WHO Pathogen Access Benefit Sharing System. Geneva Health Files

• 29 Apr: Philanthropy is reshaping global health. Here’s how. The Conversation

• 29 Apr: Accelerating malaria vaccine scale-up for a healthier nation. The Guardian Nigeria

• 29 Apr: Long a dream, it's now real: a fast and accurate TB test that doesn't need phlegm. NPR

• 29 Apr: African Leaders Declare End of Aid Era at Nairobi World Health Summit, But The Data Tell a More Complicated Story. Health Policy Watch

• 29 Apr: Global forum takes stock of progress on new TB vaccines for adults and adolescents. WHO

• 29 Apr: A WHO worth fighting for: the case for focused, ambitious reform. The Lancet

• 29 Apr: Ebola vaccine provides long-term immune responses against deadly virus, helping inform future outbreak responses. LSHTM

• 29 Apr: Lenacapavir and the real access test. AIDspan

• 29 Apr: The UK is a malaria science ‘superpower’ – and the world needs that. The Independent

• 29 Apr: The fox, the crow and the superbug: how wildlife could be an ‘early warning system’ for antibiotic resistance . Gavi

• 30 Apr: Meet two pioneering Market Shapers. MedAccess

• 30 Apr: Africa’s victory over malaria will be built at home. Daily News Tanzania

• 30 Apr: No sputum needed: Easy-to-use TB test shows accuracy in 7-country analysis. CIDRAP

• 30 Apr: No Pandemic Agreement Annex by World Health Assembly, Says Civil Society. Health Policy Watch

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