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PDP Press Releases/ statements
• 18 Mar 2019: Year of Progress Highlights Need for TB Vaccine Research Support
• 7 Mar 2019: DNDi remembers Derrick Wong, highly valued Board member
• 14 Mar 2019: Study shows dramatically shorter treatment for Chagas disease could be just as effective, and significantly safer
• 21 Feb 2019: R&D Portfolio Update February 2019: DNDi Mycetoma programme
• 21 Feb 2019: R&D Portfolio Update February 2019: DNDi Filarial diseases programme
• 21 Feb 2019: R&D Portfolio Update February 2019: DNDi Chagas disease programme
• 21 Feb 2019: R&D Portfolio Update February 2019: DNDi Leishmaniasis programme
• 21 Feb 2019: R&D Portfolio Update February 2019: DNDi Sleeping sickness programme
• 7 Mar 2019: FIND commitment to diversity and inclusion recognised in 2019 Global Health 50/50 report
• 14 Mar 2019: FIND extends Neglected Tropical Diseases portfolio to include Schistosomiasis
• 25 Mar 2019: World Tuberculosis Day 2019: A message from our CEO
• 12 Dec 2018: GARDP, Eisai and Takeda announce partnership in the search for new antibiotics
• 15 Jan 2019: First clinical results of PlacMalVac project published
• 25 Sep 2018: GSK candidate vaccine helps prevent active pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV negative adults in phase II study
• 8 Mar 2019: TB Medicine Pretomanid Enters Regulatory Review Process in the United States
• 20 Mar 2019: Statement on Building a Tuberculosis Free World: The Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis
• 16 Jan 2019: Two positive phase III studies of tafenoquine for the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria published in The New England Journal of Medicine
• 29 Jan 2019: MMV and DNDi make 400 compounds available to stimulate research into new drugs for pandemic diseases
• 11 Mar 2019: Leading humanitarian, development, and global health organizations urge Congress to reject cuts to foreign assistance
• 15 Jan 2019: Vietnam-produced seasonal influenza vaccine licensed for production and use
PDP Funder Announcements
GHIT
Wellcome Trust
Nov 7 2018: How we’re using research and evidence to make sure public engagement has a big impact
Nov 19 2018: We need to act fast to stop the spread of superbugs
Funder Announcement Archives
• 2014 PDP Funder Announcements
• 2013 PDP Funder Announcements
New PDP Publications
• Sep 7: IPM 2017 Annual Report. IPM
• Sep 11: DNDi 2017 Annual Report. DNDi
• Sep 25: EVI 2017 Annual Report. EVI
Other Reports/ Publications
• Feb 2019: Guidelines for malaria vector control. WHO
• Feb 2019: When the Drugs Don’t Work Antibiotic Resistance as a Global Development Problem. React Group
• Feb 2019: Challenges and opportunities for innovation, access and delivery of health technologies: Why a global dialogue?, background paper. Uniting Efforts for Global Health
Related Press Releases/ Announcements/ non-Peer Reviewed Articles
• 1 Mar: How to fix tuberculosis R&D—the community speaks. Nature
• 1 Mar: Are We Headed for a New Era of Malaria Drug Resistance?. The Scientist
• 1 Mar: Mimicking Holes in HIV Coating Key to Vaccine Design. Technology Networks
• 4 Feb: An atlas of HIV’s ‘escape routes’ could improve vaccine design. Fierce Biotech
• 4 Mar: Scientists developing new vaccine strategy for tuberculosis. MedicalXpress
• 5 Mar: UK patient 'free' of HIV after stem cell treatment. BBC
• 5 Mar: The World Needs Better Drugs for TB. We Have a Proposal—and We Need your Feedback. Center for Global Development
• 5 Feb: New Funding Partnership To Develop Innovative Drugs For Leishmaniasis. Health Policy Watch
• 5 Feb: WHO Benchmarking Tool Made “More Transparent” In Evaluating Regulatory Authorities. Health Policy Watch
• 6 Mar: MSF questions affordable access to CEPI-supported vaccines. CIDRAP
• 6 Mar: African Heads Of State Endorse Continental Medicine Regulator. Health Policy Watch
• 6 Mar: Bayer launches combination insecticide to fight resistance malaria. Reuters
• 6 Mar: Preparing for the outbreak: helping research swing into action in central Africa. Horizon Magazine
• 7 Mar: Drug resistance could make 28 million people poor. SciDevNet
• 7 Mar: Malaria vaccine trial gets hard-won funds. Australian Associated Press
• 7 Mar: CROI 2019: Two “game changing regimens” together show promise for preventing TB in people living with HIV. Science Speaks
• 8 Mar: CEPI Board Reaffirms Commitment To Safeguard Access To New Vaccines. Health Policy Watch
• 8 Mar: FDA accepts NDA for pretomanid in combination TB regimen. Healio
• 11 Mar: Battle over CEPI's access to vaccines policy deepens. Devex
• 11 Mar: Anti-malarial shows promise in human clinical study. Phys.org
• 11 Mar: Expert says gene editing could be 'promising' path to HIV cure. The Hill
• 11 Mar: ODA for Research & Development: Too Much of a Good Thing?. CGD
• 12 Mar: Why the Italian health minister is pushing for global transparency on drug pricing. STAT
• 12 Mar: Global 'pandemic' of fake drugs killing children worldwide, report says. CNN
• 13 Mar: What next in the fight against Lassa fever?. Devex
• 13 Mar: Drug-releasing coil in stomach could provide better treatment for TB. New Scientist
• 13 Mar: Mosquito-killing drug cuts malaria by a fifth in children. The Telegraph
• 14 Mar: STREAM Trial: Nine-month regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis brings “promising cure rates”. Science Speaks
• 14 Mar: Mosquito-killing drug offers new tool for fighting malaria. Thomson Reuters Foundation
• 15 Mar: DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease. Health Policy Watch
• 15 Mar: CUGH 2019: Researchers say training, resources for the “private sector,” including traditional healers, will be critical to TB control. Science Speaks
• 15 Mar: Curing HIV just got more complicated. Can CRISPR help? Science
• 15 Mar: Doctors Without Borders blasts coalition working on vaccine development. STAT
• 18 Feb: Italy Floats Proposal For New Deal On Drug Pricing At World Health Assembly. Health Policy Watch
• 19 Mar: FDA issues guidances for long-acting PREP, pediatric HIV drug development. BioCentury
• 19 Mar: Evotec And GARDP Announce New Partnership To Discover Novel Antibiotics. Digital Journal
• 20 Mar: WHO finalizes MDR-TB treatment guidance recommending shift from injections. Science Speaks
• 20 Mar: Gigantic EU research programme takes shape. Nature
• 20 Mar: Wiping out TB by 2045 could cost up to $10bn a year. The Telegraph
• 20 Mar: Key to saving lives of newborns lies in half a teaspoon of blood, study claims. The Guardian
• 20 Mar: New WHO recommendations to accelerate progress on TB. WHO
• 20 Mar: A global hub for antimicrobial resistance is taking shape. Devex
• 20 Mar: Developing vaccines and therapies for the highly pathogenic Nipah and Hendra viruses. AP
• 21 Mar: CDC U.S., global TB data highlight worldwide needs for extended screening, preventive treatment, access to newest medicines. Science Speaks
• 21 Mar: We Have A New Roadmap To A World Without Tuberculosis. Huffington Post
• 21 Mar: Mosquito-killing drug ‘reduced malaria in children’. SciDevNet
• 22 Mar: Q&A: Why the world needs science and partnerships to tackle TB. Devex
• 22 Mar: Tuberculosis: could a new vaccine soon be on hand?. The Guardian
• 22 Mar: TDR collaborations build regional networks and research capacity to fight TB. TDR
• 23 Mar: TB ‘can be eradicated’ with funding push. SciDevNet
• 23 Mar: Tuberculosis: older than time, tougher than nails. Thomson Reuters Foundation
• 24 Mar: A Painless Microneedle Patch For Diagnosing Tuberculosis. Forbes
• 25 Feb: Japan scientists win backing for work on potential Nipah vaccine. Reuters
• 25 Feb: New opportunities to prevent P. vivax malaria relapse. WHO
• 25 Mar: Access To Essential Medicines – Charles Gore Speaks About MPP’s Expanding Role. Health Policy Watch
• 26 Feb: Global Accelerator Network On Antibacterial Research Expands. Health Policy Watch
• 27 Feb: CEPI awards US $34million contract to CureVac to advance The RNA Printer™—a mRNA vaccine platform that can rapidly combat multiple disease. CEPI
• 27 Feb: Improving resource mobilisation for global health R&D: a role for coordination platforms?. BMJ Global Health
• 27 Feb: Study finds potential new weapon in fight against malaria. France 24
• 28 Feb: U.S. firm led by Japanese researcher to start clinical trial of new malaria vaccine. Japan News
• 28 Feb: Big pharma is embracing open-access publishing like never before. Nature
Articles/ Reports on PDP related issues (peer reviewed)
• A Trial of a Shorter Regimen for Rifampin-Resistant Tuberculosis. A Nunn, et al, NEJM, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1811867 Mar 13 2019.
• Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis. M Reid, et al, The Lancet, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30024-8. Mar 20 2019.
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