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"ACT Consortium" Pools Top Multinational Brains To Implement Artemisinin Combinations In Malaria

11/18/09 • 6 min

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Audio News - LSHTM Podcast

Ugandan Health Ministry Commissioner Dr Anthony Mbonye and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine scientist Professor David Schellenberg are just two of the multinational members of the recently-formed ACT consortium set up to pool the expertise of leading scientists and public health movers and shakers in both the developed and developing world to fight malaria with optimal use of the best drugs: artemisinin combination treatments, or ACTs. After a symposium devoted to the work of the new consortium—held at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan African Malaria Conference held in Nairobi—they talked about their current programme and the goals in sight.

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