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It is hard to believe that in less than 3 weeks we will be welcoming you to the 6th MIM conference in sunny Durban. Final preparations for what promises to be a very exciting and enriching experience are being put in place. In this out final newsletter to you we bring you the latest conference updates and reminders. We wish you trouble free travel to South Africa and look forward to connecting with each of you during the conference.

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Arjen Dondorp trained as an infectious diseases and intensive care physician in the Netherlands. He is a Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, U.K., and a visiting Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. 

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Dr Alan Magill MD is the Director, Malaria, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, USA. Dr. Magill is ABIM board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He has dual academic appointments as Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Dr Robert D. Newman is a pediatrician and Director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland.  As Country Coordinator of Health Alliance International in Mozambique in the late 1990s, he was astounded at the human toll of malaria in Africa.  He has dedicated the last 15 years to combating the disease, first at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and since 2009, at WHO.

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The latest news from the MIM Secretariat. Read about important dates, plenary speakers, and a pre-conference workshop in the attached MIM Update of 16 August 2013. Feel free to share this information with your fellow colleagues. 

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