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The Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium will host its third annual partners’ meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, June 15-17, 2010.
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Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium
Welcome to the website of the Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Consortium. The MiP Consortium is a global research initiative of 47 research institutions, led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, undertaking a five year programme of research (2007-2012) to evaluate new and improved existing interventions for the prevention and treatment of malaria in pregnancy, which places up to 50 million women at risk every year.
Ten major projects direct research in four key areas of malaria in pregnancy: burden assessment, prevention, treatment and how best to scale up existing strategies and interventions. Expert institutions from all over the world are involved in conducting this research and sharing information to provide the evidence needed to improve the control of malaria in pregnancy. The MiP Consortium is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and the European Union. The Secretariat is based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
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About MiP Malaria infection during pregnancy is a major cause of severe maternal anaemia and preventable low birth weight in infants, which greatly increases the risk of infant death. Find out more about the consequences of malaria in pregnancy for both mother and child. |
Projects The MiP Consortium is involved in a wide range of activities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Browse our project pages. We work in the following areas of research: |
Partners The MiP Consortium joins 47 partner institutions across 32 countries globally. For details of all our partner institutions, visit our partner links page. |
Resource Centre The MiP Consortium hosts a resource centre managed by the Secretariat at LSTM. The Malaria in Pregnancy Library is a regularly updated, comprehensive bibliographic database of published and unpublished literature relating to malaria in pregnancy. View the current MiP Consortium publications. |