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Dear Colleague,
We would like to warmly thank newsletter readers who have already provided us with feedback on the recently-posted Drug Resistance Working Group consultation draft report. For those of you who have not yet done so, we invite you to view these recommendations along with a set of critical questions. We hope that you will provide feedback and thank you in advance.
In this month's guest column, Katherine Douglas and I discuss an amazing series of news articles about global drug resistance by two Associated Press reporters who went looking for resistance and found more than they bargained for.
As always, we welcome your thoughts at [email protected].
Regards,
Rachel Nugent
Deputy Director for Global Health
Center for Global Development
Monthly Guest Column
Two award-winning journalists spent the better part of 2009 taking a global tour of drug resistance. The sights they found were astonishing - and terrifying. I spoke to one of them, Margie Mason, shortly after their five-part series entitled "When Drugs Stop Working: An Emerging Threat to Global Public Health" ran in newspapers around the world-unfortunately, in my view-during the week between Christmas and New Year. CGD has been tracking Margie's journey and providing background information to her since she set out.
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Latest drug resistance research
- Improved Virological Outcomes in British Columbia Concomitant with Decreasing Incidence of HIV Type 1 Drug Resistance Detection (Clin Infect Dis. Gill VS, Lima VD, Zhang W, Wynhoven B, Yip B, Hogg RS, Montaner JS, Harrigan PR. Abstract Only)
- Geographic Distribution of Staphylococcus aureus Causing Invasive Infections in Europe: A Molecular-Epidemiological Analysis. (PLoS Med. H Grundmann, DM Aanensen, CC van den Wijngaard, BG Spratt, D Harmsen et al.)
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Networks of HIV Drug-Resistant Strains: The Case of San Francisco (Science. R J. Smith, JT. Okano, JS Kahn, EN Bodine, SBlower. Abstract only)
- Epidemiology and Impact of Imipenem Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. E Lautenbach, M Synnestvedt, MG Weiner, WB Bilker, L Vo, J Schein, and M Kim. Abstract only)
- Gastric Infection by Helicobacter pylori (Current Gastroenterology Reports, Sachs G, Wen Y, and Scott DR. Abstract only)
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Featured VIDEO
- View a series of Associated Press reports: "When Drugs Stop Working: an emerging threat to global public health"
PARTNER RESOURCES
- Read Extending the Cure's latest study on the increasing problem of drug-resistance Acinetobacter in hospitals in the U.S.
- Peruse the most recent edition of the World Malaria Report - released Dec 15, 2009
- The BMGF's Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is accepting letters of inquiry for its new point-of-care diagnostics grant opportunity until Feb 16, 2010. Learn more
- View the latest edition of ReAct's quarterly e-newsletter
RECENT/UPCOMING EVENTS
- View materials from a recent Opinion Formers' conference on counterfeit medicines sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the American Pharmaceutical Group
- Peruse abstracts from the Nov. 2009 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting
- View documents from the 40th Union World Conference on Lung Health (Cancun, Mexico, Dec 3-7, 2009)
- Submit an abstract to the International AIDS Conference (Vienna, July 18-23, 2010) before the February 10 deadline
- Submit an abstract to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (Atlanta, July 11-14, 2010) before 1 March
RESISTANCE-RELATED JOBs
- Consider applying for a Toronto-based one-year post-doc fellowship on the "Mathematics of Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases"
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