IDDO Webinar: Radical cure of vivax malaria: can we do better?

The Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) includes the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) a collaborative platform generating innovative resources and reliable evidence to inform the malaria community on the factors affecting the efficacy of antimalarial medicines IDDO will be hosting a one-hour webinar on P. vivax malaria called “Radical cure of vivax malaria: can we do better?“.

Date: Friday, February 3, 2023

Time: 12:00 pm GMT

Large individual patient data meta-analyses show that the dosing of the 8-aminoquinoline drugs primaquine and tafenoquine could be substantially improved. These analyses include the majority of all studied vivax malaria patients who received 8-aminoquinoline drugs over the last 20 years. Laboratory work confirms these findings and provides important new information on the mechanism of action of these essential medicines.

Speakers

  • Rob Commons (Menzies School of Health Research. Talk on 8AQ efficacy in clinical trials)
  • Alison Roth (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Talk on laboratory studies assessing hypnozoitocidal activity.
  • James Watson (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit. Talk on the reassessment of tafenoquine pharmacometrics)

Chair:

  • Chau Nguyen Hoang (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit)
  • Sir Nicholas White (Mahidol Oxford Research Unit)

If you’d like to attend, please register at this link.

Read more here.

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