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The University of York is not responsible for information provided by third party sites with links on this page Artemisia annua and artemisinin Artemisia annua ; the plant, production, processing and medicinal applications. Artepal; portal to information on the ACT supply chain. Artemisia, agriculture and malaria in Africa: the interplay of tradition, science and public policy by Dana G. Dalrymple http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/docs/mmss/ArtemisiaAgricultureMalaria.pdf The world of Artemisia in 44 questions by Willem Heemskerk, Henk Schallig, Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters http://www.kit.nl/smartsite.shtml?id=5564 WHO guidelines on good agricultural and collection practices for Artemisia http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/traditional/ArtemisiaMonograph.pdf “Artemisia” in series “ Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles” edited by Colin W. Wright, published London , Taylor and Francis 2002, ISBN 0-415-27212-12 The Artemisinin Consortium (now the Artemisinin Enterprise): MMV Annual Report, 2007 http://www.mmv.org/IMG/pdf/Part_IV_Artemisinin_Consortium.pdf Report from a meeting on the production of artemisinin and artemisinin-based combination therapies. www.who.int/malaria/docs/arusha-artemisinin-meeting.pdf Comparative assessment of technologies for extraction of artemisinin by Malcolm Cutler, Alexei Lapkin and Pawel K. Plucinski Institute of One World Health (iOWH) project to create a source of microbially produced artemisinin to supplement existing natural sources of the compound. http://www.oneworldhealth.org/diseases/artemisinin.php Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs) and malaria treatment "Saving Time Buying Lives: economics of malaria drugs in an age of resistance’ http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11017.html WHO guidelines for the treatment of malaria. http://www.who.int/malaria/docs/TreatmentGuidelines2006.pdf Fact sheet on ACTs (MMV) http://www.mmv.org/article.php3?id_article=27 Fact sheet on ACTs (WHO) http://www.rbm.who.int/cmc_upload/0/000/015/364/RBMInfosheet_9.htm Fact sheet on ACTs (Malaria Consortium) http://www.malariaconsortium.org/pages/artemisininbasedcombinationtherapyact.html Coartem TM (Novartis) http://www.corporatecitizenship.novartis.com/ Fact sheet on medicines to treat malaria (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_23995.html Aligning ACT Supply and Demand : short and long term options by Cheri Grace and Michel Grupper. Ensuring sustained ACT production and reliable artemisinin supply Jean-Marie Kindermans , Jacques Pilloy, Piero Olliaro and Melba Gomes http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-6-125.pdf Poor quality anti-malarial drugs WHO press release on monotherapies http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr02/en/index.html? WHO fact sheet on counterfeit drugs http://www.who.int/medicines/services/counterfeit/impact/ImpactF_S/en/index.html Overview of the subject from basic science through to the latest treatment and control guidelines from the Wellcome Trust http://malaria.wellcome.ac.uk/ Animation of the malaria life cycle Fact sheet on tackling malaria in developing countries from the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/postpn284.pdf Site on malaria from the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/malaria/default.htm Frequently Asked Questions about Malaria from DFID (UK Department for International Development), The African Summit on Roll Back Malaria ( Abuja Declaration and the Plan of Action 2000 http://www.rbm.who.int/docs/abuja_declaration.pdf The Malaria Journal Artemisinin Enterprise http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/extra/artemisininenterprise/ Roll Back Malaria Partnership Global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/ Medicines for Malaria Venture http://www.mmv.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=15 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm World Health organisation (WHO) UNICEF The Institute of One World Health http://www.oneworldhealth.org/ Mediplant The Malaria Consortium Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) http://www.who.int/tdr/diseases/malaria/mim.htm Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) Walter Reed Army Institute of Research |
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