Cross posted from: EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
A Global Subsidy: Key To Affordable Drugs For Malaria?
Ramanan Laxminarayan and Hellen Gelband
Health Affairs <http://content.healthaffairs.org/>, July-August - Volume 28, no. 4 (2009) - - - Delivering On Global Health Issue
Abstract: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/4/949
“……The global fight against malaria has been continually challenged by poor access to affordable, effective medicine. Growing resistance to chloroquine, the traditional treatment, has worsened the situation.
Artemisinins, the successor therapy to chloroquine, are at least ten times more costly than the older drug. In developing countries, most malaria medicines are purchased in the private sector, where traditional aid mechanisms do not reach. So a new aid approach was needed.
The Affordable Medicines Facility–malaria (AMFm) will efficiently supply publicly subsidized drugs to meet public- and private-sector demand in malaria-endemic countries. If artemisinins are priced more competitively, resistance to them will be delayed. …….”
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Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
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Dear colleagues,
The deadline of abstract submission for the 3rd EACID (the 3rd Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases) has been extended to August 08, 2009. Please submit your papers by the midnight on August 08, 2009.
The congress has been scheduled between 01 and 04 October 2009 in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, with collaboration of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC).
For detailed information about EACID, the congress, registration and abstract submission, please visit our website at www.eacid.org. You can send abstracts via our online abstract submission portal http://www.abstractagent.com/2009eacid/.
We are happy to inform you that the Preliminary Scientific Program of 3rd EACID is now available on the congress website.
If you have any questions regarding the practical aspects of the congress for scientific program please contact Dr. Saban Esen (Tel: + 90 533 6323733 or E-mail: sabanes@hotmail.com), for registration and accommodation please contact Mine Tuter from Present Tour Congress and Incentive, Istanbul, Turkey. Phone : +90 212 247 29 49, Fax: +90 212 247 42 57 and her e-mail is mine.tuter@presenttour.com.tr
Important dates to remember:
April 13, 2009 : Starting abstract submission session
August 08, 2009 : Deadline for abstract submission
August 20, 2009 : Notification of abstract to authors
August 30, 2009 : Deadline for early registration fee
01-04 October 2009 : The Third EACID
Sincerely,
Salih Hosoglu, M.D.
On behalf of Organizing Committee
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