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24 Oct 2008

China and global health

China’s growing importance on the world stage will have an impact on infectious disease and its control.
Source: Lancet
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23 Oct 2008

Successful results with new worm treatment

A trial in China finds tribendimidine is effective against hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, tapeworm threadworm
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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22 Oct 2008

Sweeter pill could mean less malaria

A more palatable version of artemether-lumefantrine appears to be equally effective to the standard formulation.
Source: BBC; Lancet
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21 Oct 2008

Researcher describes discovery of a virus that infects malarial mosquito

An interview with the leader of the team which discovered the AgDNV virus that infects the Anopheles gambiae mosquito.
Source: Scientist Live
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21 Oct 2008

Kenya’s bed net ‘blitz’ aims to cut malaria deaths

An ambitious effort to retreat 3.5 million bed nets in four days.
Source: UK Department for International Development; AllAfrica.com
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21 Oct 2008

Pneumococcal disease: the neglect of a major killer

An effective vaccine already exists to protect against what is claimed to be the leading infectious cause of child mortality, but it is seldom used in developing countries.
Source: All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention in the Developing World (UK); BBC
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20 Oct 2008

Calls for increased funding made at major TB conference

There is good news to report on tuberculosis but the need for additional funds is clear.
Source: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease; Africa Science News Service; Foreign Policy in Focus; News-Medical.net; Science Centric
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17 Oct 2008

How will the financial crisis affect aid programmes?

Evidence from history suggests that budgets will be cut.
Source: Center for Global Development
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17 Oct 2008

Vaccine trial may herald the elimination of polio

A new vaccine which requires one dose, instead of three, is shown to have superior effectiveness in a Nigerian trial.
Source: BBC
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16 Oct 2008

World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach

The pendulum swings and PHC is once again the focus.
Source: World Health Organization
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