What happens when you conduct a country-specific decision tree model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of lateral flow rapid diagnostic test LF-RDT in Cambodia & Bangladesh fr a health system perspective & consider cost of #AMR ? bit.ly/4ayPIiE

Wellcome funded

New test, CRISPR-BP34, diagnoses patients w often-fatal tropical disease melioidosis (caused by B pseudomallei bacteria) in hours, not days as w current bacterial culture methods, so patients could receive the correct, life-saving antibiotics faster.
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How can we prevent substandard & falsified (SF) vaccines from threatening our vaccines' effectiveness? Could widely available rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) be repurposed to screen for falsified (ie counterfeit) vaccines in supply chains? Find out!
bit.ly/3uFyFvp

#GRAM study: AMR in enteric fever rising across 75 countries, highlighting the need for water, sanitation, and other prevention and control measures in endemic areas
Paper: rb.gy/xsoweg
Release: rb.gy/53a5xv
Tropical Medicine Oxford Christiane Dolecek MORU Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

Does World Health Organization (WHO)'s AWaRe (Access, Watch, Reserve) antibiotic book to promote rational use of antibiotics match the epidemiology of infectious diseases & antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Laos & other LMICs? What important pathogens are missing?
Find out!
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FORESFA's workshop aimed to advance lab analysis of simulated samples, crucial for forensic techniques to analyse substandard & falsified (SF) medical products. Wellcome funded, FORESFA aims to better understand SF medicines' epidemiology & impact
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Researchers from MORU have developed a unique #DengueSurveillance platform, boosting predictions for better prevention in Thailand 🇹🇭 and potentially other regions with similar challenges. #BMCMedicalResearchMethodology 🔎🦟🚫

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Rapid ID'ing of #malaria infections & active surveillance tools are crucial to achieve malaria elimination in malaria endemic areas malaria. An MORU study's anomaly detection system acts as early warning for malaria outbreaks in countries like Thailand
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Presenting our No. 1️⃣ news story of 2023... This one is from MORU on the effect of #Ivermectin in #COVID treatment, published in February 📅

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How did Medical Action Myanmar MAM successfully eliminate falciparum #malaria in Eastern Myanmar in 6 yrs? Challenging traditional, labor-intensive methods, MAM's cost-effective strategy used community health workers to eliminate malaria in remote areas.
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Can a single pill fight #malaria ? MORU researchers will study the safety and efficacy of a fixed-dose #artemisinin -based combination therapy to fight #DrugResistant malaria in Africa and Asia 💊🚫🦟

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Fantastic way to finish the term hosting our SEARCH collaborators @imperialmed. Teams from Hospital For Tropical Diseases (HCMC), @morubkk @ndmoxford OUCRU MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL and National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Hanoi), bringing their diverse skills to tackle #hepatitis

Combining the 3 antimalarial TACT drugs into 1 tablet ensures that patients get the full dose needed to treat their #malaria effectively, & protects the component drugs from falling to resistance, helping keep them effective for longer
Funded by GHIT Fund (グローバルヘルス技術振興基金)
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🦠Laboratory accidents involving high-consequence pathogens can have catastrophic consequences.

Despite stricter controls, they still occur regularly – most caused by avoidable human error.

🔎Read our latest research:

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How did using Community Health Workers CHWs to provide malaria diagnosis & treatment & basic health care services in remote communities in Mon state Myanmar impact #malaria ? In 6 yrs, P. falciparum was eliminated + incidence of P. vivax fell markedly.
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Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust
Tropical Medicine Oxford MORU Wellcome
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Are there transferable lessons from community (village) #malaria workers programme in Cambodia that can be considered for service delivery strategies in Tanzania? Please read our review BMJ Global Health #CHWs MORU Tropical Medicine Oxford
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Parasitological examination of bone marrow, splenic or lymph node aspirations is best way to diagnose visceral leishmaniasis VL but needs skilled staff & adequate facilities. Could serological direct agglutination test (DAT) be effective VL diagnosis tool?
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Congratulations to Dr Arjun Chandna of COMRU MORU on winning a Nuffield Department of Medicine Grad Prize (runner-up) for his DPhil work on 'Prediction of disease severity in patients with febrile illnesses in resource-limited settings'
Pic: Arjun (mid) with supervisor Prof Rafael Pera & colleagues