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><channel><title>Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia &#187; News</title> <atom:link href="http://www.mrc.gm/category/news/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.mrc.gm</link> <description>Established in The Gambia in 1947, the MRC Unit, The Gambia is the UK&#039;s single largest investment in medical research in a developing country. The Unit&#039;s research focuses on infectious diseases of immediate concern to The Gambia and the continent of Africa, with the aim of reducing the burden of illness and death in the country and the developing world as a whole</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:34:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>PneumoWAR network gains momentum</title><link>http://www.mrc.gm/news/pneumowar-network-gains-momentum.html#utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=feed</link> <comments>http://www.mrc.gm/news/pneumowar-network-gains-momentum.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>alison</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[laboratory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PneumoWAR]]></category> <category><![CDATA[training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[workshop]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=2569</guid> <description><![CDATA[The introduction of appropriate vaccines to fight paediatric bacterial meningitis remains an urgent priority, as over three quarters of a million children in Africa continue to die each year as a result of this blight.  Many African countries are eligible &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=2231</guid> <description><![CDATA[The West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM) is now in its third year. Funded by the EU European Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, WANETAM’s mission is to build capacity at West African sites for clinical &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=2197</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Unit’s revitalised scientific strategy was showcased at a  on Wednesday 11th January 2012 in The Gambia. Senior representatives from the Bill &#38; Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO, the West African Health Organisation, the EU European Developing Countries Clinical Trials &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=2104</guid> <description><![CDATA[Malaria prevalence in The Gambia has reduced substantially over the last few years.  However, the factors that maintain transmission despite the decrease in the disease remain little understood. Recently, Professor Umberto d’Alessandro (MRC Unit, The Gambia) and international colleagues have &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1926</guid> <description><![CDATA[A study led by the Medical Research Council in The Gambia in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene &#38; Tropical Medicine and published in this week’s PLoS Medicine shows for the first time in Africa, that vaccinating young children &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1917</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dramatic drop in child deaths: Has The Gambia reached the Millennium Development Goal target seven years early? Simple health service measures could cut the number of children dying in rural areas of Africa by the age of five by over &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1651</guid> <description><![CDATA[A new vaccine to combat tuberculosis (TB) is less effective, for Gambian infants, when administered at the same time as other childhood vaccines, according to clinical trial results published today in Science Translational Medicine.  The findings of the trial, part-funded &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1645</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Thursday 16th June, the Medical Research Council Unit, The Gambia, under the auspices of the United Nations Global Fund donated 11 flourescent microscopes to the National TB Reference Laboratory which is hosted by the Gambia’s National Public Health Laboratories. &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1577</guid> <description><![CDATA[Responsiveness to changes in research funding and shifting global health priorities have led to an increased awareness of the need for Good Clinical and Laboratory Practice accreditation at MRC Unit, The Gambia. Now, following an intense two year drive under &#8230; <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.mrc.gm/?p=1421</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vaccines are known to be a cheap, effective way to save lives. Yet their introduction into national immunization programmes must be supported by data – and with the exception of The Gambia – the acquisition of good data remains a &#8230; <a
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