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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

A registered charity affiliated to the University of Liverpool, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1898, becoming the World's first institution devoted primarily to tropical health. It has extensive links with UN organizations, health ministries, universities, non-governmental organizations and research institutions worldwide and is involved in numerous programmes to control diseases of poverty and to develop more effective systems for health care. The School prides itself on its links with developing countries and is committed to increasing such partnerships.

One successful collaboration is the Malawi College of Medicine/ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine/ Wellcome Trust (MLW) research unit in Blantyre, Malawi. This research centre has a long term and established programme of research on the major diseases affecting the population of Malawi including Malaria, TB, HIV, and childhood infections. MLW works in conjunction with the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, which serves Blantyre and the surrounding region.

Blantyre

Malawi College of Medicine/Liverpool School of Tropice Medicine/Wellcome Trust (MLW) Collaborative site in Blantyre, Malawi:

The Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust is a research unit within the College of Medicine, University of Malawi. Research is conducted on locally important diseases, working in collaboration with Departments of the College of Medicine (COM), University of Malawi. Work is based in wards and clinics of the Queens Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), in Health Centres and communities in peri-urban or rural areas, and in the laboratories of MLW and COM. A major emphasis of the programme is to train both Malawian and international staff.

Strong scientific and administrative links are maintained with the University of Liverpool, UK (via the Wellcome Trust Tropical Centre), and encourage other collaborations with centres of excellence in the region and worldwide. The MLW Programme has three main aims:

To conduct biomedical research on tropical health problems in a place where those problems occur;
To provide training in research skills for clinical and laboratory scientists both from the host country and abroad;
To strengthen the COM in its capacity to conduct research on health problems of local importance.

The MLW Programme's research activities are focused under five large multidisciplinary research themes to develop multiple synergistic projects. These themes are: severe malaria, therapeutics in the tropics, severe bacterial infection & the impact of HIV, mucosal immunity, infectious disease epidemiology and implementation research

Ultimately, the MLW, through its collaboration with the COM, endeavours to directly or indirectly influence health debate, policies and decisions for the benefit of Malawians by generating high quality health research findings.

the website is as follows:

The Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust http://www.mlw.medcol.mw/index.html

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Last updated: 24th June 2008