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News article 25 Jul 2013 Barriers still preventing pregnant women in gaining access to malaria prevention in sub-Saharan Africa One of the biggest risks for pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa is contracting malaria. The disease is responsible for as many as 200,000 newborn...
News article 24 Jul 2013 NEWS RELEASE: LSTM becomes higher education institution New status will support LSTM’s continuous growth as a leading centre in Tropical Medicine and Global HealthLiverpool, 24 July 2013 – The...
News article 24 Jul 2013 NEWS RELEASE: LSTM becomes higher education institution New status will support LSTM’s continuous growth as a leading centre in Tropical Medicine and Global Health Liverpool, 24 July 2013 – The...
News article 23 Jul 2013 LSTM Professor Richard Pleass shortlisted for Prix de l’Innovation 2013 Professor Richard Pleass is one of four shortlisted finalists out of over 300 applications for the Universal Biotech Innovation Prize.
News article 19 Jul 2013 Nigeria recommended for guinea worm-free certification The International Certification Team for Guinea Worm Eradication (ICT) will recommend Nigeria for guinea worm-free certification.
News article 17 Jul 2013 Better bed nets for malaria: the need for a long-term solution In an interview with Public Radio International’s The World programme, LSTM Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, talks about her ongoing...
News article 15 Jul 2013 Bugs, Bites and Parasites: Tropical Diseases Uncovered ‘Bugs Bites and Parasites: Tropical Diseases Uncovered’ is a six-part observational documentary broadcast by the Discovery Channel, exploring...
News article 12 Jul 2013 LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit monitors and evaluates recently launched LABSKILLS AFRICA Representatives from LSTM’s Capacity Research Unit (CRU) have attended the launch meeting for the £750,000“LABSKILLS AFRICA” programme in Nairobi....
News article 10 Jul 2013 EHCRC course on systematic reviews in Malawi Researchers, clinicians, and public health policymakers can use findings from up-to-date robust systematic reviews to inform their thinking and...
News article 10 Jul 2013 Indonesia: start of Malaria in Pregnancy clinical trial STOPMiP, the acronym for Intermittent Screening or Treatment or Intermittent Prevention therapy for the control of Malaria in Pregnancy, is a...
News article 8 Jul 2013 LSTM Diploma in Tropical Nursing receives Royal College of Nursing accreditation LSTM’s Diploma in Tropical Nursing has been accredited by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Centre for Professional Accreditation...
News article 5 Jul 2013 All parliamentary debate on women in developing countries LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit (MNHU) provided a briefing to the House of Lords last week for itsParliamentary Debate on Women in...
News article 3 Jul 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Deconstructing severe malaria LSTM’s Seminar Series continued today with a presentation by Dr Climent Casals-Pascual, of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Physiology...
News article 3 Jul 2013 HIV treatment in basic health facilities - fewer patients lost and quality of care maintained, recent Cochrane review shows Treating HIV patients in basic health facilities or at home means fewer patients drop out of treatment but the quality of care doesn’t suffer, a...
News article 2 Jul 2013 New HIV guidelines could avert 3 million deaths The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new HIV treatment guidelines recommending offering antiretroviral therapy (ART) earlier. A...
News article 2 Jul 2013 Dr Nick Hamon to succeed Professor Janet Hemingway as CEO of IVCC The IVCC Board of Trustees has appointed Dr Nick Hamon as CEO to succeed Professor Janet Hemingway. Dr Hamon comes to IVCC with over 25...
News article 1 Jul 2013 LSTM receives US$ 10 million in its fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases Second phase funding approved for the global Anti-Wolbachia ConsortiumLiverpool, 1 July 2013 - Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has...
News article 27 Jun 2013 A•WOL and AstraZeneca partner in the fight against NTDs A·WOL and the recently established High Throughput Screening (HTS) Centre of AstraZeneca have started a collaborative project aiming...
News article 26 Jun 2013 Libya: LSTM study shows high risk of HIV transmission within risk groups and potential spread to general population PLOS One published an LSTM led study this week which presented the outcomes of Libya’s first bio-behavioural survey among men having...
News article 26 Jun 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: 'ChIPing away at the epigenome' In the latest instalment of LSTM’s Seminar Series today, Lecturer Dr. Paul Hurd, of The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen...
News article 25 Jun 2013 Report: Discussions on rights and public health implications of HIV self-testing scale up The report on the First International Symposium on Self-Testing for HIV has just been released by the World Health Organization (WHO)....
News article 20 Jun 2013 A·WOL Consortium Launches Second Phase A·WOL consortium launched their latest venture today in Liverpool, the A·WOL II Macrofilaricidal Drug Development Project. The event included...
News article 18 Jun 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Why the details of heterogeneities in pathogen load and transmission matter for policy design LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Deirdre Hollingsworth, Deirdre joined LSTM in January 2013 as a joint...
News article 17 Jun 2013 T-REC PhD Student wins Ghana’s ‘Outstanding Female Doctor Award’ 2013 T-REC PhD student, Dr. Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko (right on picture), received the ‘Outstanding Female Doctor’ award in the Ghana Women’s...
News article 14 Jun 2013 Liverpool Health Partners (LHP): Excellence through collaboration Representatives of the nine founding partners of LHP attended a showcase event in Liverpool’s Town Hall on Thursday. Chief executives;...
News article 12 Jun 2013 LSTM evaluates Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Awards LSTM’s Professor Imelda Bates and Dr Janet Njelesani from the Capacity Research Unit at LSTM were invited to present...
News article 12 Jun 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Diagnostic Development and Evaluation – Towards the End-game? LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Emily Adams - Lecturer in Tropical Diagnostics at LSTM’s Department of...
News article 7 Jun 2013 LSTM Maths/Stats Forum: statistical modelling of antimalarial drug trials The Maths/Stats Forum at LSTM is a monthly meeting of staff and postgraduate students involved in research activities with a mathematical, modelling...
News article 7 Jun 2013 Study: A novel pathway implicated in severe malaria in African children In a recent online prepublication of Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, lead author Chris Moxon and co-...
News article 6 Jun 2013 T-REC’s Annual Meeting 2013 T-REC partners met on 3 June 2013 at the 23rd International Congress of the International Society Blood Transfusion (ISBT) in Amsterdam, to...
News article 5 Jun 2013 First meeting of Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) Steering Committee LSTM hosted the first meeting of the Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) Trial Steering Committee to discuss various aspects around this cluster...
News article 4 Jun 2013 Nature: Inflammatory Flt3l is essential to mobilize dendritic cells and for T cell responses during Plasmodium infection The advanced online edition of Nature Medicine published an article that showed that CD8α+CD103+ dendritic cells expand...
News article 31 May 2013 Study: Introducing best practice for developing guidelines at WHO; progress made, but not always welcome The World Health Organization (WHO) has improved the way it develops global guidelines, but the procedures put in place to assure quality could still...
News article 30 May 2013 PLOS One: Innovative community-based approaches double TB case notification and improve treatment outcome in Ethiopia Community health workers—known as health extension workers in Ethiopia—have teamed up with motorbike riders to dramatic effort in Ethiopia’s Sidama...
News article 30 May 2013 Lessons from the NTD world on scaling up health innovation LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux was a speaker at Tuesday’s Investing in Health Innovation – What Lessons for Eye Health? A seminar...
News article 29 May 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: The ecological immunity of bed bugs LSTM’s seminar series continued today with ‘The ecological immunity of bed bugs’, a  presentation by Professor Michael Siva-Jothy, Head of...
News article 24 May 2013 Launch of REACHOUT consortium held at LSTM LSTM yesterday hosted the launch of REACHOUT, a consortium of eight partners supported by a 5 year EU FP7 grant, coordinated by LSTM. The...
News article 23 May 2013 LSTM and University of Warwick: "Catalysing Applied Health Research" LSTM Professor Bertie Squire (pictured) gave a lecture today at the Medical School of the University of Warwick on 'Catalysing...
News article 22 May 2013 Global recommendations on child medicines should show supporting evidence Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy...
News article 22 May 2013 LSTM wins two prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration Grants from Gates Foundation LSTM’s Parasitology Department has won two prestigious Grand Challenge Exploration (GCE) grants, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates...

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