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5th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference
Welcome to the TropIKA.net Knowledge Hub set up for the
5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference,
November 2-6, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya. This site provides in-depth coverage of the meeting while it is happening and an opportunity for participants anywhere to comment on reports and activities. Simply sign in and join the discussion.
MIM 2009 is being held at the Kenyatta International Conference Center, in Nairobi, Kenya, where over 2,000 people have registered. The full programme and agenda can be found at the
MIM site. MIM conferences are the largest malaria meetings in the world, attracting malaria researchers and control experts, science administrators, health care workers, members of the media and representatives of private foundations, governments and international organizations from across the world.
This site is part of the TropIKA.net Knowledge Hub initiative, which supports international health forums by enhancing dialogue among stakeholders before, during and after events.
Meeting news6 Nov 2009 Traditional medicines to fight malaria
Why researchers need to mine traditional knowledge for drug discovery 6 Nov 2009 MIM moves from East to West
The Tanzanian MIM secretariat has handed over the reins to Cameroon 5 Nov 2009 Transmission-blocking vaccines push towards eradication
New vaccine candidates now aim to stop transmission Daily reports6 Nov 2009
What type of malaria R&D should Africa be doing and how do we build capacity?
5 Nov 2009
Dr. Hans Rietveld, director of Global Access & Marketing at the Novartis Malaria Initiative, talked about how Novartis is contributing to the fight against malaria through partnerships.
4 Nov 2009
Day 3 got to grips with the enormous tasks of elimination and eradication. The Global Malaria Action Plan envisions a “malaria-free world”.
3 Nov 2009
The key message of the second day’s plenary session was the need for evidence-based research to influence malaria policy.
2 Nov 2009
The plenary session set the tone for the day, discussing the need for crosscutting action in malaria.
Session reportsIn depth session reports by TropIKA.net rapporteurs 5 Nov 2009 TDR PresentationsScientific Session 42 |
The TropIKA.net InterviewsTo facilitate debate on key issues dealt with at MIM 2009, TropIKA.net has interviewed ten researchers who will be making presentations during the event. Ten African malaria scientists and ten senior figures involved in control programmes will also be asked for their views on the presentations and the implications for future research and control efforts. TropIKA.net talks with MIM presenters about their cutting-edge research.
Meet the MIM delegates6 Nov 2009
Q&A with Simon Hay on mapping malariaMapping could prove a useful tool for control and eradication effort 4 Nov 2009
Q&A with Aceme Nyika about ethicsAfrican countries need to boost their ethics review capabilities, but with very differing needs and limited resources, how should they go about doing so?
Q&A with Pedro Alonso on eradicationMalaria eradication is a lofty goal, but how do we achieve it, and would it divert attention from more pressing issues of control? Guest blog2 Nov 2009
What Africans need from product development partnerships
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Meeting blog
20 Nov 2009
Podcasts from Nairobi
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has made available a series of podcasts from the MIM conference. They may be accessed on the School’s Audio News site. The podcasts include the following.
Professor Brian Greenwood discusses the presentation he gave to the conference, in which he explained that combined prophylactic and therapeutic use of [...]
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Profile: Sanjeev Krishna
Sanjeev Krishna at St George’s, University of London, talks to TropIKA.net about his research into the mechanism of artemisinin and the search for new antimalarials
