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October 21, 2008
In This Issue:
News and Reports
1. NIH Awards $4.6 Million to Expand Global Health Network
2. USAID Awards Grants for Development of New Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostics, and Management Approaches
3. Sweet Pill Tackles Child Malaria
4. Drop in TB Funding Could Set Back Fight against AIDS
5. Computers + Biology = Virus Detector
6. XDR-TB: Photographer Brings Emerging Disease into Focus
Events
7. 48th ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting
8. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
News and Reports
1. NIH Awards $4.6 Million to Expand Global Health Network
NIH Awards $4.6 Million to Expand Global Health Network (NIH News, September 10, 2008)
"Campuses have seen a dramatic surge of interest in global health," said Fogarty Director Roger I. Glass, M.D, Ph.D. "These Framework awards have enormous impact, despite their modest size. They provide the catalyst to transform global health programs, leveraging and enhancing existing resources, fostering innovative research collaborations and creating new foreign research training opportunities."
To read more about the universities that have been awarded, click here.
2. USAID Awards Grants for Development of New Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostics, and Management Approaches
USAID Awards Grants for Development of New Tuberculosis Drugs, Diagnostics, and Management Approaches (PR Newswire, October 14, 2008)
USAID announced this month new grants to The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development and the International Union against TB and Lung Disease.
“Tuberculosis remains a major public health threat," said Dr. Kent Hill, USAID's Assistant Administrator for Global Health. "New tools are urgently needed to combat this scourge, and USAID is committed to bringing new tools to the field, including drugs, diagnostics, and improved approaches to manage the disease, including multi-drug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB."
To read the article, click here.
3. Sweet Pill Tackles Child Malaria
Sweet Pill Tackles Child Malaria (BBC News, October 14, 2008)
“A cherry-flavored pill which is easy to swallow could help save the lives of children in malaria-affected areas, say researchers in Tanzania.”
To read the article, click here.
4. Drop in TB Funding Could Set Back Fight against AIDS
Drop in TB Funding Could Set Back Fight against AIDS (LA Times, October 15, 2008)
"About 11 million of 33 million HIV-positive people have TB, a Nobel laureate warns, and if financially troubled nations renege on aid pledges, it would deprive the poor of treatment.”
To read the article describing their work, click here.
5. Computers + Biology = Virus Detector
Computers + Biology = Virus Detector (New York Times, October 6, 2008)
The New York Times provides an edited version of a two-hour conversation with Joe DeRisi, a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator; a McArthur “Genius” Fellow; a professor at the University of California, San Francisco; and a winner of this year’s prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment. The ViroChip, one of many of his achievements, helps researchers diagnose viral infections more quickly—which was vital in identifying SARS.
To read the article, click here.
6. XDR-TB: Photographer Brings Emerging Disease into Focus
XDR-TB: Photographer Brings Emerging Disease into Focus (Global Voices, October 10, 2008)
“In 2007 renowned war photographer and photojournalist James Nachtwey received a TED Prize, granting him $100,000 and one wish to change the world. Nachtwey's wish was to share a vital story in an innovative way using news photography. Last week his wish came true with the unveiling of his photos, which show the global impact of XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis), and the launch of a multimedia public health campaign.”
To read the article, click here.
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7. 48th ICAAC/IDSA 46th Annual Meeting
Date: October 25-28, 2008
Location: Washington, DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center
For more information click here.
8. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting
Date: December 7-11, 2008
Location: ASTMH's 57th Annual Meeting at the Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
For more information click here.
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