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The Malaria Endgame

Panelists: Gordon Awandare | Lemu Golassa |Lilian M Ang'ang'o | Fitsum G Tadesse

Covering the current state of the field, and future directions and challenges in the fight to eliminate malaria from endemic countries, this ePanel will highlight various aspects of disease prevention, treatment and control, including:

• current state of vaccines
• impact of co-infections in Africa
• genetically modified mosquitos-benefits, risks and community engagement challenges
• the disconnect between research and malaria control programs

To register please visit: https://virtual.keystonesymposia.org/ks/live/418/page/2223

Cochrane has opened a free access registry of scientific studies in combating COVID-19 in an attempt to provide the world with quick analyses and understanding of evidence emerging from the war against the virus. These resources are important to us, our researchers and clinical carers. Here are some of the helpful links:

https://www.cochrane.org/news/cochrane-launches-new-study-register-support-rapid-evidence-synthesis-global-challenge-combat

https://covid-19.cochrane.org/

https://community.cochrane.org/about-covid-19-study-register

https://community.cochrane.org/search-help-covid-19-study-register

Only one day to go until the first livestream of the COVID-19 Online Educational Program. Register for free today and do not miss your chance to hear from the experts at the frontline of this pandemic.
If you have already registered, details on how to join the livestream will be sent to you approximately 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
WEBCAST SCHEDULE

Tuesday, 7 April
20:00 CEST / 14:00 EDT / 11:00 PDT*

Wednesday, 8 April
20:00 EDT / 17:00 PDT*

*Instructions on how to connect will be shared with registrants approx. 24 hours prior to the live stream.

The duration of each livestream will be 90 minutes.

Registration is free for all participants: https://virology.eventsair.com/covid-19/registration/Site/Register

You can find thre reliable sources of information regarding the COVID-19 outbreake below:

The WHO dashboard - provides and up to date situational analysis, updated daily.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd

The LitCovid hub – a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about COVID-19. This site is the most comprehensive resource on the pandemic, giving access to research articles in PubMed categorised by different research topics - General Info, mechanism, transmission, treatment, case reports and epidemic forecasting. The content is updated daily and as this morning there were are 950 papers published in the last 2,5 months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/

The COVID-19 Global Cases dashboard  - provides daily updated (per country - total cases, recovered, deaths), hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6