25 Apr 2008
Indonesian study finds doxycycline to be effective against Brugia malayi filariasis.
Source: SciDevNet
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25 Apr 2008
Support comes in from government, industry and TV viewers.
Source: Roll Back Malaria Partnership
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22 Apr 2008
The 5th Meeting of the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF), the first to be held in a sub-Saharan country, witnessed the launch of the Tanzanian President’s Lymphatic Filariasis Fund, intended to raise money to help the battle against the disease.
Source: World Health Organization
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22 Apr 2008
ASMQ, the new fixed-dose combination of artesunate (AS) and mefloquine (MQ), is now registered and available in Brazil, thanks to a partnership between a Brazilian public pharmaceutical company and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.
Source: Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative; ASMQ
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22 Apr 2008
The Korean-based Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) says it supports seven companies, including three in developing countries, that are close to or are already testing their dengue vaccine on humans.
Source: Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative
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21 Apr 2008
The World Health Organization’s annual report on global tuberculosis control says that, if the current trend is sustained, the Millennium Development Goal to have halted and begun to reverse the incidence of TB could be achieved before the target date of 2015.
Source: World Health Organization
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17 Apr 2008
A funders conference that addressed the question of research capacity building in developing countries has concluded that TropIKA has an important part to play.
Source: TropIKA
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17 Apr 2008
A vaccine for the feared H5N1flu virus has been approved after phase I and phase II trials in China.
Source: SciDev.Net
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17 Apr 2008
A new study provides further support for the introduction of rotavirus vaccine programmes.
Source: SciDev.Net
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17 Apr 2008
A Colombian research group has chemically synthesised an early-stage malaria vaccine candidate in the laboratory.
Source: SciDev.Net
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