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LSTM Annual
Report 2014/15

Research consortia

hosted by LSTM

AVECNET
PERFORM
AVECNET aims to develop and evaluate The PERFORM consortium uses an action
new tools for malaria control in Africa.
research approach to support decentralised

Funded by: European Union management to improve health workforce
www.avecnet.eu
performance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Funded by: European Union

www.performconsortium.com
A·WOL
A•WOL’s academic and industrial partners
aim to develop new drugs against REACHOUT
onchocerciasis (river blindness) and The REACHOUT consortium supports and
strengthens the vital work of close-to-
lymphatic lariasis (elephantiasis).
Funded by: Bill and community providers of healthcare in Africa
and Asia.
Melinda Gates Foundation
www.a-wol.net
Funded by: European Union
www.reachoutconsortium.org

COUNTDOWN
ReBUILD
COUNTDOWN is a research consortium
dedicated to investigating cost-e ective, The ReBUILD consortium explores di erent
scale-up and sustainable solutions, approaches to health system development
in countries that have been a ected by
necessary to control and eliminate the
seven most common NTDs by 2020
social and political con ict / crisis in Africa
Funded by: UK Department for and Asia.
Funded by: UK Department
International Development
www.countdownonntds.org
for International Development
www.rebuildconsortium.com

EHCRC

The E ective Health Care Research
Consortium (EHCRC) focuses on
T-REC
reliable, relevant evidence in malaria
T-REC is a consortium of academics and

and tuberculosis, child health, maternal health practitioners who want to improve
health and health systems. It prepares blood transfusion services across Africa.
and updates Cochrane Reviews about the
Funded by: European Union
e ects of health care relevant to low- www.t-rec.eu
income and middle-income countries.
LSTM hosts the Cochrane Infectious
Disease Group.

Funded by: UK Department
for International Development

www.evidence4health.org and
www.cidg.cochrane.org

MiP

The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) consortium
improves the control of malaria in
pregnancy in Africa, Asia and Latin
America by researching malaria treatment,

prevention and public health impact.
Funded by: Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, European Union and
the European and Developing
Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

www.mip-consortium.org

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