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      <title>LSTM  named World Health Organization Collaborating Centre</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:17:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization (WHO), in consultation with the government of the United Kingdom, has designated the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Evidence Synthesis for Infectious and Tropical Diseases.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM at Women Deliver 2010</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Head of LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit, Dr Nynke van den Broek, is presenting a session at Women Deliver 2010, a global conference against maternal death, which opens today in Washington DC.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM launches €2.75 million African reproductive health programme</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 10:47:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[LSTM has launched a four year programme to improve the delivery of reproductive health services in Tanzania and Niger.  The programme, funded by the European Union, has been designed by LSTM and the seven project partners to highlight and address the cultural barriers which reduce the reach and effectiveness of existing adolescent reproductive health (ARH) services in partner countries.]]></description>
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      <title>The World Needs Midwives Now More Than Ever</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:17:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Staff in the Maternal and Newborn Health Unit (MNHU) of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) are raising awareness about morbidity and mortality in pregnancy and childbirth across the developing world, through celebrating International Day of the Midwife (IDM) on 5th May 2010. The MNHU staff at LSTM are raising funds through the sale of pin badges and cakes to help mothers and newborns in developing countries, and to help provide skilled midwifery care to women.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM Director elected to US National Academy of Sciences</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:21:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest scientific honours in the United States.  The NAS was signed into being by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863.]]></description>
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      <title>One hundred strong show of support for World Malaria Day</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:32:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One hundred staff and students joined hands outside Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) to mark World Malaria Day, each person symbolising 10,000 of the lives lost every year to malaria.]]></description>
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      <title>LATH adopts new logo</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Apr 2010 10:12:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/lathnewlogo.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH) has announced that as of the 1st April 2010, it will have a new logo. LATH’s unique partnership with LSTM is fundamental to the work undertaken in Liverpool and across the developing world. The rebrand emphasises and reinforces the link between LATH and LSTM and aligns LATH within the LSTM group identity. The new logo will be phased in for use by LATH’s country offices throughout April 2010.]]></description>
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      <title>World TB Day</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:52:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/worldtbday2010.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Wednesday 24 March is World TB Day, organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and dedicated to raising awareness and generating action to combat tuberculosis, and is themed ‘innovate to accelerate action’.]]></description>
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      <title>Campaign to end sale of electronic mosquito repellents</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/campaigntoend.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A campaign to stop the sale of electronic mosquito repellents by major airlines is beginning to bear fruit with the immediate withdrawal of the products from KLM flights. The issue being that these electronic repellents, sold to airline passengers, many on their way to malaria endemic countries, just don’t work.]]></description>
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      <title>PoWs reunited to record testimony for future generations</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:09:15 GMT</pubDate>
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Sixty six years after their incarceration as Far Eastern Prisoners of War (FEPOW), eight veterans have been reunited at LSTM to discuss their experiences and contribute to a unique education project. The veterans, aged between 86 and95, are among the last remaining survivors from over three and a half years captivity under Japanese forces during WWII.
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      <title>LSTM begins £0.5 million malaria study in Burkina Faso</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Feb 2010 09:50:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/malaria_study_faso.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A new study led by LSTM will investigate whether long-term weekly iron and folic acid supplementation can reduce anaemia without increasing the risk of contracting malaria. The information provided by the study, based in Burkina Faso and running until 2014, will strengthen adolescent health services and develop effective preventative programmes for anaemia control in young women.]]></description>
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      <title>Global Malaria in Pregnancy risk study published</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new study has estimated that more than 125 million pregnancies around the world are at risk from malaria every year. The study, published in PLoS by the LSTM-led Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, is the first reliable estimate of the numbers at risk globally from malaria in pregnancy and is an important first step towards a spatial map which should help policy makers allocate resources more effectively.]]></description>
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      <title>£10m funding boost to eliminate elephantiasis globally</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:52:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (CNTD) at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been awarded £10 million by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to support endemic countries in tackling lymphatic filariasis (LF) – a crippling disease more commonly known as elephantiasis.]]></description>
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      <title>Study Shows Antibiotic Unsuccessful In Preventing Preterm Labour</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:50:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool have found that an antibiotic, currently used to treat infections linked to incidences of premature births, does not help reduce the risk of preterm labour.]]></description>
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      <title>Rapid HIV Testing First for Liverpool on World AIDS Day</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:50:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/rapid_hiv_testing.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is leading a partnership with NHS Liverpool Community Health, the Health Protection Agency, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Liverpool John Moores University, to offer a free, while you wait HIV testing service to anyone in Liverpool on 1, 2 and 3 December, on a drop-in basis with a result in 20 minutes.]]></description>
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      <title>IVCC announces monitoring and evaluation system at MIM</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:25:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/ivcc_mim.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[IVCC is hosting a symposium to disseminate the latest advances in monitoring and evaluation of vector control programmes at the 5th Pan-African Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) conference in Nairobi, Kenya, 1-6 November 2009.  Advanced tools for monitoring and evaluation will also be showcased, including live demonstrations of the new Malaria Decision Support System (MDSS).]]></description>
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      <title>New tool promises more accurate antimalarial drug dosing</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:06:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/new_tool.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Scientists at LSTM have developed a tool to support the development of appropriate age-based dosing regimens for malaria drugs. Drug doses in endemic countries are often calculated using age to estimate body weight, potentially resulting in poor, but widely-used regimens.]]></description>
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      <title>Laughter the best medicine as comic opens new travel clinic</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:32:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/doddopensclinic.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ken Dodd OBE has officially opened the new LSTM Well Travelled Clinic in Anson Street. The new clinic replaces the existing facility within LSTM’s main buildings and represents a long term commitment by LSTM to WTC and the travel heath of the north west region.]]></description>
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      <title>tropical</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:40:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/documents/Tropical_09_v4.pdf</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM's annual stakeholder magazine tropical is now available and contains a range of articles relating to work locally, nationally and internationally. Articles include a national HIV/AIDS strategy for Libya, the expansion of Wellcome Trust funded initiatives in Malawi, the new Masters Programme in International Sexual and Reproductive Health, looking for new 
drugs to treat malaria in pregnancy, LSTM's Maternal and Newborn Health Unit and a neglected tropical diseases expedition to Sierra Leone.]]></description>
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      <title>IHLC - Creation of International Health Links Centre</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Sep 2009 10:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/IHLC.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH) have received a £560,000 grant from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) to set up and deliver a UK International Health Links Centre (IHLC).]]></description>
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      <title>CRIMALDDI - European co-ordination of antimalarial drug discovery</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:10:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/crimalddi.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The CRIMALDDI project (Coordination, Rationalisation and Integration of Antimalarial Drug Discovery and Development Initiatives) is being led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and brings together key players in the antimalarial drug discovery fields including the World Health Organisation, the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and leading research organisations across Europe.]]></description>
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      <title>World Mosquito Day and the legacy of Sir Ronald Ross</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:10:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/worldmosquitoday2009.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This Thursday marks the anniversary of one of the most important scientific discoveries in the battle against malaria. On 20th August 1897, the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes was established by Ronald Ross, a British doctor working in India who became LSTM’s first senior lecturer. He was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1902 for his discovery.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM Far Eastern POW project receives lottery grant</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:10:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/powlottery.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM has been awarded £48,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of its ongoing work with ex-Far Eastern Prisoners of War (FEPOW) to create an archive of oral histories from surviving prisoners. The project will expand this work through a website and interaction project that will allow many more of their stories to be told and preserved for future generations. The two year project is led by LSTM’s Professor Geoff Gill with partners including the Imperial War Museum, Wirral’s Learning Lighthouse and Pensby High School for Girls.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM leads project to develop HIV/AIDS strategy for Libya</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/lstmleadhivaids.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM is leading a project to provide technical assistance to the Government of Libya to Finalise the Development of a National HIV Strategy and Programme of Support. Funded by a 1m Euro Grant from the Delegation of the European Commission to Libya. Over the next year, LSTM in partnership with Libyan institutions and the Harvard University’s Biostatistics Department will produce updated and comprehensive information on the current epidemiology of HIV infection in the country to be able to produce an effective National HIV Strategy.]]></description>
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      <title>Continued Vigilance Against Drug-Resistance Malaria Is Needed</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:25:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/cochrane_vigilance.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM is home to the editorial base of The Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, which contributes reviews to The Cochrane Library, a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.   Issue 3 published this week features a highlighted review of current combination malaria therapies by LSTM’s Dave Sinclair.]]></description>
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      <title>Well Travelled expands to new clinic</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:06:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/wtc_clinic_move.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM's Well Travelled Clinic in Pembroke Place has relocated to bigger premises in Anson House, opposite LSTM.  The new clinic opened for business today and represents a long term commitment by LSTM and WTC to the area.]]></description>
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      <title>£1.1m grant to lead development of resistance-detecting field kit</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:39:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/nih_grant.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded a £1.1m grant by the US National Institutes of Health to lead a five year project to develop a Field Applicable Screening Tool (FAST) kit to detect resistance to public health insecticides in mosquitoes.]]></description>
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      <title>£1.1m grant to lead development of resistance-detecting field kit</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:39:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/nih_grant.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded a £1.1m grant by the US National Institutes of Health to lead a five year project to develop a Field Applicable Screening Tool (FAST) kit to detect resistance to public health insecticides in mosquitoes.]]></description>
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      <title>£2.8 million grant to raise standards in maternal and newborn health</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:56:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/makingithappen.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have been awarded £2.8m to improve maternal and newborn health in five target countries - Zimbabwe, Kenya, Bangladesh, India and Sierra Leone.]]></description>
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      <title>Tanzania study re-opens debate on targeting mosquito larvae to control malaria</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:55:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/tanzania_study.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Targeting mosquito larval populations may be an effective intervention to help control malaria in urban situations, a study supported by a team of researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) suggests.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM launches new travel clinic in Chester</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:14:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/travelclinicchester.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Well Travelled Clinics Ltd (WTC) opens its first travel clinic outside Liverpool in Chester city centre this week. WTC, a business of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) already operates a busy clinic in Liverpool, adjacent to the world-renowned centre of excellence in tropical medicine.  The Chester clinic is the first in a series of planned expansions across the North West.]]></description>
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      <title>James Ross becomes new Chair of LATH</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:04:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/jamesross.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM Chairman and international industrialist James Ross has been appointed as the new Chairman of Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), the consultancy arm of LSTM which provides quality programme management, consultancy and training in international health.  James has vast experience of international business in a career spanning more than 40 years and including posts such as Managing Director of BP, Chief Executive of BP America and Chairman of Littlewoods.]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Islam delivers 2009 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:14:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/drislamdelivers2009lecture.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The 2009 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture was delivered on 16 March 2009 by Dr Quazi Monirul Islam MD MPH FRCOG, Director of the Department of Making Pregnancy Safer, at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Dr Islam’s lecture was entitled “Saving mothers and newborn lives. It is no more development of new technology but scaling up access, coverage and quality of services to improve maternal and newborn health and survival”.  Dr Islam spoke to a gathering of LSTM staff, students, alumni and invited guests about the problems that face some developing countries, highlighting what is needed to reduce maternal mortality rates and improve the quality of care at health centres and hospitals.  WHO figures show that 600,000 women globally die each year in childbirth and three million babies are born dead.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM and MiP Consortium awarded further €3.6 million</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:38:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/lstmmipaward.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium, led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been awarded €3.6 million by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) to undertake research aimed at optimising the use of an antimalarial drug given to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Africa.]]></description>
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      <title>LSTM and UoL  secure £1.4m to develop new 'magic bullet' antimalarial drug</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:18:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/magicbullet.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and the University of Liverpool (UoL) have secured a £1.4 million			 project grant to begin the development of new drugs to combat malaria.]]></description>
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      <title>World leading Biomedical Research Centre opens in Liverpool</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:47:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/worldleading.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[An international centre for research into the diagnosis and treatment of some of the world’s most serious 	infections, has been launched in Liverpool.  The Biomedical Research Centre has been officially opened by Sir William Stewart, chairman of the Health Protection Agency.  The pioneering centre has been set up by the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.]]></description>
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      <title>Genetic marker for resistance identified</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:00:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/genetic_marker.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Research led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has identified the genetic basis for resistance to commonly-used insecticides in one of the major malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa.]]></description>
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      <title>Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Global Fund</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/molyneuxinlancet.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest edition of The Lancet carries a letter written by Professor David Molyneux (LSTM) and colleagues, entitled 'Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Global Fund'.]]></description>
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      <title>Thai Ambassador visits LSTM</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/thaiambassador.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[His Excellency the Ambassador to Thailand, H E Kitti Wasinondh, visited LSTM on Tuesday 20th January 2009 as part of a two-day visit to Liverpool, hosted by Mr Nicholas Wainwright, Honorary Consul for Thailand. His Excellency met LSTM’s Director of Education Sue Assinder, before proceeding to a presentation on postgraduate teaching, followed by a glimpse at some of the laboratories used by PhD students. His Excellency also had the opportunity to speak to Kwannan Nantavisai and Kamolnat Muangyim, PhD students at LSTM and Sant Muangnoicharoen, Postdoctoral Research Assistant within LSTM’s Molecular Biochemical Parasitology Group.]]></description>
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      <title>Year of progress ends on £10 million high note</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:30:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/Yearofprogressends.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, today commended the individuals and organisations that have helped to make 2008 a year of great progress for LSTM.]]></description>
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      <title>LATH wins contract to boost health research capacity in Malawi</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/LATHwinscontracttoboosthealthresearch.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), a consulting arm of LSTM, has been awarded a £10 million contract to manage a programme of work supporting a new Health Research Capacity Strengthening (HCRS) initiative in Malawi.]]></description>
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      <title>Dr Bertie Squire elected President of IUATLD</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/DrBertieSquireelectedPresidentofIUATLD.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr Bertie Squire, Reader in Clinical Tropical Medicine and co-manager of the Centre for Research on Equity and Systems 	for TB and HIV/AIDS (CRESTHA) at LSTM, has been elected President of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.]]></description>
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      <title>Well Travelled Clinics supporting World Rabies day</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/wtcsupportrabiesday.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[World Rabies Day takes place this year on 28 September.  Led by the Alliance for Rabies Control and supported by 	numerous organisations worldwide, including the Well Travelled Clinic at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, it aims to 	reinforce the message that rabies is a totally preventable disease and to raise money for local rabies control programmes.]]></description>
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      <title>Sustaining Life, How Human Health Depends Upon Biodiversity</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/biodiversity.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Former Director of LSTM, Professor David Molyneux in a Liverpool Daily Post feature examining the book Sustaining 	Life, How Human Health Depends Upon Biodiversity. Edited by Professor Molyneux and Professor David Newman.]]></description>
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      <title>Festival of science highlights continuing threat from tropical diseases</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/festivalofscience.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM is hosting a series of lectures in association with the BA Medical Sciences section which will examine the 	current state of play in the fight against tropical diseases, entitled ‘Tropical Medicine: Present and Future’.]]></description>
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      <title>Director welcomes new students in Syria</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/directorwelcomesstudentssyria.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway today sent a welcome message to new students beginning Masters courses at the 	Syria Centre for Strategic Health Studies (CSHS) in Health Systems Management, Hospital Management, Public Health and Health 	Economics.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Moses Bockarie has joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, succeeding David Molyneux as Director of the 	Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases.  A graduate of LSTM in 1988 and 1992, his career in neglected tropical diseases has taken 	him all over the world.  He joins LSTM from the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University in 	Cleveland, USA.]]></description>
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	HRH The Princess Royal today officially opened the new £23 million Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (CTID) at the 	Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

The state of the art facility will help to save thousands of lives around the world by generating and trialling drugs, vaccines and insecticides that will directly improve health.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $30 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the control and treatment of malaria in pregnancy in Africa, Asia and Latin America.  The five year programme will directly benefit the 50 million women who face exposure to malaria whilst pregnant every year.

The grant will fund research at Liverpool and at 38 partner institutions in 27 countries around the world.  The research consortium is also supported by the European Union, and is seeking additional funding from other donors.]]></description>
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21 December 2007

Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are preparing for a historic New Year handover of the magnificent new Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (CTID). 

The environmentally friendly building has been designed to make as much use of natural daylight as possible, with many of the internal walls made from glass to allow daylight to penetrate to the heart of the building.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[James Ross was formally elected Chairman of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine at its Annual General Meeting today.  Having joined the world of industry with BP after graduating in the early 1960s, he became Managing Director of BP and Chairman and Chief Executive of BP America.  After leaving in 1992 he led other sectors of industry, including Littlewoods in Liverpool as Chairman from 1996 until 2002.  During that time he developed a lasting friendship with the City and its people]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Molyneux, Professor of Tropical Health Sciences at LSTM and President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) will use the occasion of his inaugural Presidential address to conclude that diseases afflicting the vast majority of the poorest populations in Africa and Asia are controllable but are largely ignored by policy makers and funding agencies.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[IOTA NanoSolutions Limited and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have today entered into an Agreement for the joint development of products for the more effective treatment and prevention of malaria.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new, national research centre set-up to tackle infections is to be launched on Thursday, August 23, in Liverpool.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:06:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $23 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help victims of human filariasis - a worm infection which causes some of the world’s most debilitating and distressing diseases.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Lord Sainsbury of Turville today ‘topped out’ a Liverpool building that is destined to be one the world’s leading research centres into tropical and emerging diseases – at the start of National Science and Engineering Week.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new modular framework for Masters programmes has been launched which will offer wider choice across a greater range of internationally recognised postgraducate programmes]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jan 2007 14:49:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have received a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to outwit the deadly tsetse fly.  The fly is responsible for transmitting human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), better known as sleeping sickness, a disease which kills 60,000 people every year..]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:15:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A leading physician from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received the OBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours in recognition of his work in the field of childhood malaria in Malawi]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has won a major European contract to act as consultant to the Syrian Ministry of Health in modernising its health sector, beating off competition from all over the world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine scientist has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society this week in recognition of the advances his research has made into drug resistance and new treatments for malaria.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Oct 2006 09:15:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health (LATH), the consultancy arm of The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is a partner in a new programme to reduce the impact of neglected tropical diseases. Funded by the United States.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A leading scientist at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Dr Mark Taylor, has helped identify a new drug treatment for the disfiguring disease lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 500,000 women worldwide die every year from complications of pregnancy and childbirth - one every minute. But next week a unique course will be launched at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine which could save the lives of thousands of women in the developing world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:35:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/Internationalofficetoimprovefemalehealth.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Two of the world's leading medical organisations - the oldest medical school dedicated to fighting tropical diseases in the world and a royal college - are teaming up to reduce the tragic toll of maternal and infant deaths in resource poor countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:17:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about/communications/press_releases/Geneticallyengineeredantivenom.htm</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As reported in the latest issue of the prestigious medical journal, Public Library of Science: Medicine, researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have made an important breakthrough in using DNA sequencing rather than actual snake venom as the means to generate antivenom.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 09:01:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The construction site for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's new £23 million research centre became a showcase for artistic talent today. Colourful interpretations of tropical health research produced by art students from Liverpool Community College have been installed onto the hoarding surrounding the site on the corner of London Road and Great Newton Street .]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has embarked on an exciting new phase in its 107 year old history with the demolition of buildings on an adjoining site to  make way for a state of the art Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases. This will link via a bridge with the existing school building in Pembroke Place.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:36:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Liverpool scientist is to lead a new European initiative in the search for drugs which could save millions of lives. 

Professor Steve Ward, deputy director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, has been awarded 17.5million Euros (just over £10m) by the EU Commission to undertake a five year programme of research specifically aimed at discovering and developing new drugs for poor people with malaria in developing countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:04:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[LIVERPOOL, 9 DECEMBER, 2005 - Doctors at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have today issued an urgent warning against the dangers of travelling to malaria-endemic countries without protection.

The alert comes after four North West tourists contracted malaria while on holiday in the Gambia, West Africa. All four had contracted the potentially fatal falciparum form of malaria.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Dougal Freeman, Financial Director of LATH (Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health) has won the prestigious International Charitable Development Award from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Paul Kasimu, Barclays¹ Regional HR Business Partner for the East African Region has visited the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to hear of the many HIV/Aids initiatives in which the School is involved around the world.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:32:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[LIVERPOOL, October 30, 2005 - The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a $50.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for new research into malaria. The grant will put the School at the forefront of the global fight to defeat malaria which kills 2,000 African children every day.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:25:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[“This state of the art facility will ensure that the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine remains at the cutting edge of scientific endeavour”

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has received a huge boost for its future with the news that it has secured £18 million of public sector funding to build a new international institute to develop treatments and vaccines for some of the world's most deadly diseases.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Antibiotics hold key to cure for disfiguring disease Scientists at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have proved that a single course of one antibiotic may hold the key to curing the parasitic worm disease Elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis) that has been one of the most common causes of global disability since Biblical times. The discovery offers the first new treatment for this distressing disease for decades.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of Britain's most eminent clinicians and scientists in the field of tropical medicine has been presented with a prestigious award at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for his outstanding contribution. He is Professor David Warrell, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Oxford University and founding director of Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine.]]></description>
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