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MIM Reports
The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM): a perspective from the first co-ordinator.
Catherine S. Davies. The Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, United Kingdom.
If research against malaria is to have a major impact on health, then all available resources and expertise must be harnessed for maximal effect. Bringing together scientists, funding organisations and disease control experts, the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) has made significant progress since its creation in 1997 in promoting and co-ordinating scientific research against malaria. Enhancing global collaboration, mobilizing resources, promoting capacity building in Africa and strengthening links between research and control are major emphases of MIM. The initiative primarily acts through drawing together diverse international research activities, setting well considered priorities, and promoting effective targeting of energies and funds. This article is a personal view on MIM contributed by the Wellcome Trust as the nominated co-ordinator during 1998 and part of 1999. It aims to set out the rationale for MIM, to explain the principles of its operation and to illustrate achievement during its first phase. (Afr J Med Med Sci. 2001;30 Suppl:55-8).
The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: co-ordination and co-operation in international malaria research.
Catherine S. Davies. Wellcome Trust, London, UK. c.davies@wellcome.ac.uk
The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) is an international alliance of organisations and individuals. It aims to maximise the impact of scientific research against malaria, through strengthening research capacity in Africa, promoting global collaboration and co-ordination, and increasing available resources. Since its establishment in 1997, the initiative has generated a remarkable level of enthusiasm and activity. Many new scientific partnerships have been established, enabled by enhanced communications and novel funding mechanisms. Dovetailing of research activities with control programmes is also improving. The challenges posed by malaria remain great, however, and in order to achieve a sustainable impact it will be crucial for the research community to capitalise on what has been achieved to date and to maintain the momentum for action well into the next millennium. This article is a personal view contributed by the Wellcome Trust as the nominated co-ordinator for MIM during 1998 and a leading international funder of malaria research. It aims to explain how the novel malaria initiative operates, to summarise some of its key outcomes, and to set out the perspectives for the future. (Parassitologia. 1999 Sep;41(1-3):497-500.)
Enhancing communications and connectivity in Africa: the multilateral initiative on malaria (MIM) model.
Siegel ER, Royall J, Bennett M.
Programs Development, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, 20894, USA. siegel@nlm.nih.gov
The U.S. National Library of Medicine, working in concert with the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM), has developed and implemented a unique organizational and technical strategy to connect malaria research sites to the Internet for purposes of facilitating North-South scientific communications and access to electronic information resources on the Web. The model employs microwave and VSAT technologies, and shares bandwidth and costs among participating malaria research sites and their respective research funders in Mali, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania and other sub-Saharan locations affiliated with MIM. The concept of institutional partnership is an essential element of this information technology capacity building effort, which may find applicability in other developing regions of the world with similar communications and research networking needs and capabilities. (Medinfo. 2001;10(Pt 1):48-52.)
Strengthening health research in the developing world : malaria research capacity in Africa
Pauline Beattie, Melanie Renshaw, Catherine S. Davies
Wellcome Trust (London, England); Multilateral Initiative on Malaria. London: Wellcome Trust, 1999.
MIM PAN-AFRICAN Conferences
- First MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference, 06 - 09 January 1997 Dakar, Senegal
- Second MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference, 15-19 March 1999 in Durban, South Africa
- Third MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference 18-22 November 2002 in Arusha, Tanzania
- Fourth MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference 13-18 November 2005 in Yaounde, Cameroon
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