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Event
Mérieux Foundation Conference on Vaccine Acceptance: Science, Policy and Practice in a ‘Post-Fact’ World at Les Pensières
October 5, 2017, Les Pensières Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
57 experts from 17 countries participated in the 5th annual meeting on Vaccine Acceptance Science, Policy and Practice in a ...
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Partnership
Partners commit to reduce cholera deaths by 90% by 2030
October 3, 2017, Geneva (Switzerland)
An ambitious new strategy to reduce deaths from cholera by 90% by 2030 will be launched tomorrow by the Global ...
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Publication
Op-ed by Alain Mérieux, President of the Mérieux Foundation, featured in The Hill
September 28, 2017, Washington, D.C. (United States)
Titled “We have to start preparing for the next deadly epidemic”, this op-ed was published on September 27th on the ...
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Event
The Mérieux Foundation is celebrating 50 years of fighting infectious diseases in developing countries
September 14, 2017, Les Pensiéres Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
Calling for all public and private stakeholders worldwide to rally together and international health diplomacy, it reasserts France’s central role.
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Partnership
Global Virus Network Adds Mérieux Foundation as Newest Center of Excellence
July 19, 2017, Baltimore (United States)
The Global Virus Network (GVN) and the Mérieux Foundation announced the induction of the foundation as GVN’s newest Center of ...
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Christophe Mérieux Prize
Serge Eholié and Xavier Anglaret Winners of the 2017 Christophe Mérieux Prize: Rewarding Infectious Disease Research in Côte d’Ivoire
June 8, 2017, Paris (France)
The 2017 Christophe Mérieux prize has been awarded to Serge Eholié and Xavier Anglaret of the Centre de recherche sur ...
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RESAOLAB
Benin Welcomes Major West African Experts in Clinical Biology: Joint Workshops of the West African Network of Biomedical Analysis Laboratories and West African Regional Disease Surveillance
June 6, 2017, Cotonou (Benin)
Some 60 participants, including the leading figures in clinical biology of the 15 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ...
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Event
The ADVAC Course Draws 72 Students to Review the Latest Trends in the Field of Vaccines
June 6, 2017, Les Pensières Center for Global Health, Veyrier-du-Lac (France)
ADVAC covers all aspects of vaccination programs to facilitate decision-making at the local, national and international levels. This year, the ...
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Project
Mali: Phase 2 Launch of the LABOMEDCAMP Country Medical Laboratory Project
May 22, 2017, Bamako (Mali)
The official ceremony to launch phase 2 of the LABOMEDCAMP project took place at the Charles Mérieux Center for Infectious ...
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Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory
Inauguration of the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory in Cambodia: new capacities for this major training and scientific research platform
April 27, 2017, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
On April 27, was inaugurated the Rodolphe Mérieux Laboratory at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) in Cambodia.
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Event
Laos: inauguration of the first Food Safety Laboratory in Vientiane
April 24, 2017, Vientiane (Laos)
On Monday, April 24 was inaugurated the Food Safety Laboratory, in Vientiane, Lao PDR (Lao People’s Democratic Republic). The 1,200 ...
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Publication of the 4th Edition of the journal Humanitarian Alternatives
April 10, 2017, Lyon (France)
Humanitarian Alternatives has just published its 4th edition. 6 years after the beginning of the war in Syria, the journal ...