New Hope for Malaria Control in African Infants

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Andrea Egan, PhD, IPTi Consortium Coordinator

Centre de Salut Internacional, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona

Rossello 132, 2-2, 08036 Barcelona, Spain

Phone: +34.93.454.8203 or +34.93.227.5706
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BARCELONA, Spain -- The Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants (IPTi) Consortium announced today that it has received grants totalling $16 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to evaluate a promising intervention for malaria control in infants. The Consortium will conduct five studies of IPTi in Africa, to be coordinated by the newly established Secretariat in Barcelona, Spain. The grants are part of a $28 million commitment to support the Consortium announced by the Gates Foundation in September 2003.

The complete announcement can be viewed on theIPTi Web site.