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3.12.10
Peace Through Vaccine Diplomacy
Dr. Peter Hotez, President, Sabin Vaccine Institute
Can vaccinations help to resolve conflicts and nuture diplomacy? Later this month, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientific ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. MORE
3.3.10
Drug shows promise against river blindness
ANI
Closantel, an old drug used to treat sheep and cattle infected with liver fluke, may prove effective in fighting river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, according to a new study. MORE
3.3.10
Fighting Deadly Neglected Tropical Diseases: Opportunities to Expand U.S. Impact in Control of NTDs
Doctors Without Borders
Over 1 billion people are infected with one of the 14 diseases defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). These are the most common infections in the 2.7 billion people living on less than $2 a day and affects those often marginalized and forgotten by governments, left to suffer in silence. NTDs are diverse but all cause severe disability or death, and bring a major economic burden on endemic countries. MORE
7.30.09
Portuguese scientists show Schistosoma haematobium direct link to tumours
Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why is not clear. Now, however, two works by Portuguese researchers just out in The Journal of Experimental Pathology and the International Journal of Parasitology reveal that cells infected in laboratory with S. haematobium, acquire cancer-like characteristics and, when injected into mice develop into tumours. MORE
6.13.09
HIV/AIDS, Schistosomiasis, and Girls
Sub-Saharan Africa is losing the war on HIV/AIDS. Although the number of AIDS-related deaths declined between 2005 and 2007 from 2.2 million to 2.0 million, more than 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2007 alone. MORE
5.25.09
Africa’s 32 Cents Solution for HIV/AIDS
By preventing urogenital schistosomiasis in sexually active females through simple and low-cost methods, we have an innovative and timely opportunity to reduce and possibly interrupt HIV/AIDS MORE
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