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New Global Subsidy that Provides Access to Most Effective Malaria Drugs Shows Promise

By Guest PostNovember 15, 2012Healthacts, african children, african countries, african nations, amfm program, anti malaria medications, anti-malarial drugs, artemisinin combination therapies, buying time, claire panosian dunavan, disease, geneva, ghana, global fund, Kenya, key, Madagascar, malaria, malaria case, niger, nigeria, physician, qaacts, saving lives, Tanzania, the lancet, ucla, uganda, Zanzibar

UCLA infectious diseases doctor played key role in finance strategy for therapy

A new international program, conceived in part by a UCLA physician, has rapidly transformed access to lifesaving anti-malarial drugs by providing cheap, subsidized artemisinin-based combination therapies in seven African countries that account for a quarter of the world’s malaria cases.

The first independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicines Facility–malaria (AMFm) program was recently published in the journal The Lancet. The program is based at the Global Fund in Geneva, an international financing institution dedicated to disbursing funds to prevent and treat infectious diseases. The evaluation shows that the program improved access to key artemisinin combination therapies, or ACTs, which offer broader protection and less antibiotic resistance than anti-malaria medications currently available in those African nations. (more…)

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First UD student successfully defends doctoral dissertation via Skype

Samuel Mathey, a graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Delaware, has become the first doctoral student in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics to successfully defend a dissertation via Skype.

On Tuesday, June 12, Mathey’s dissertation committee sat in a Pearson Hall video conference room on UD’s Newark campus while he attended his defense virtually from France.

Committee members for Mathey’s defense included Burt Abrams (chair), professor of economics; Jim Butkiewicz, professor of economics; Laurence Seidman, professor of economics; and Robert Schweitzer, professor of finance. (more…)

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New Global Subsidy that Provides Access to Most Effective Malaria Drugs Shows Promise

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