7 Jan 2008
The additional financial support will improve access to ivermectin by populations in need in 30 countries and will ensure the sustainability of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) through the year 2015.
Source: World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
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4 Jan 2008
The proposed new technique relies on a known optical effect called third harmonic generation (THG), which causes hemozoin - a crystalline substance secreted by the parasite - to glow blue when irradiated by an infrared laser.
Source: McGill University
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2 Jan 2008
A study carried out in Peru by Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health concluded that data easily collected during insecticide spraying campaigns could be used to identify children at greatest risk of infection with T. cruzi.
Source: Scidev.net
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2 Jan 2008
Of the 25 million people infected with HIV-1 in Africa, as many as half are thought to be co-infected with worms (helminths), and there is evidence that these worms may result in a more rapid progression of HIV infection to AIDS.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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2 Jan 2008
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has received a USD 25.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to research and develop new medicines to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, and visceral leishmaniasis (VL).
Source: DNDi
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2 Jan 2008
The 9th International Meeting “Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID IX)” will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 30th October to 1st November 2008.
Source: TropIKA
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3 Dec 2007
The 24-page report “Breaking the Cycle
” chronicles five years of scientific discovery conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI).
Source: JHSPH
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28 Nov 2007
In a groundbreaking study, an international research team has for the first time measured which of the parasite's genes are turned on or off during actual infection in humans.
Source: HSPH
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27 Nov 2007
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the world's largest international financier of the fight against malaria, today announced that programs it supports have so far delivered 46 million bed nets to families at risk of contracting malaria, a 155 percent increase over last year's result of 18 million.
Source: Theglobalfund.org
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23 Nov 2007
An eminent Indian researcher has proposed using an 'open source' approach to TB drug design, in the spirit of the human genome project.
Source: Scidev.net
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