Tag: Disease in the Developing World

July 25, 2019

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine To successfully set off disease, rotavirus, a virus that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting in ...

PrEP use high but wanes after three months among young African women

Innovative adherence strategies needed to support long-term usage, NIH-funded study suggestsCredit: NIAID In a study of open-label Truvada as daily ...

Most women use vaginal ring for HIV prevention in open-label study

NIH-supported research explored tool to expand HIV prevention choices for womenCredit: Andrew Loxley, courtesy of the International Partnership for Microbicides ...

Folic acid reduces risk of neural tube defects linked to HIV drug dolutegravir

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Dolutegravir is a preferred medication for treating HIV infection, but it recently has been linked ...

ACC Latin America conference highlights CV research, practice in the region

Research to be presented on smartphone use and obesity, heart disease and pregnancy, and Zika The American College of Cardiology ...

Study quantifies smoking’s strong link to peripheral artery disease

Elevated risk of this common arterial disease lasts 30 years after quitting smoking A new study led by researchers at ...

Exposure to air pollution among women in Mozambique greatly intensified by the use of kerosene lamps

Credit: Ioar Rivas (ISGlobal) Exposure to black carbon particles is 81% higher among Mozambican women who use kerosene as the ...

Multidrug-resistant malaria spreading in Asia

Study reveals importance of genomic surveillance for malaria control strategies Genomic surveillance has revealed that malaria resistance to two first-line ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Rapidly spreading multidrug-resistant parasites render frontline malaria drug ineffective in southeast Asia

Preliminary data from multi-country randomised trial find that half of patients in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam not cured by first-line ...

Researcher discovers how mosquitoes integrate vision and smell to track victims

Credit: Alex Crookshanks Mosquitoes are smarter than people think. Scientists have found that mosquitoes are changing their hunting routines in ...

Despite progress, only 3 African nations expected to meet global breastfeeding goal

Estimates show more than 800,000 child deaths could be averted annually with optimal breastfeeding Despite substantial progress, only three African ...

Risk of neural tube defects higher for babies of women on HIV therapy with dolutegrav

NIH-funded researchers present findings at International AIDS Society Conference Children born to women on HIV therapy containing the drug dolutegravir ...

Patients treated for visceral leishmaniasis can still transmit the disease, study shows

Results show PKDL could be a threat to elimination of leishmaniasis in South Asia Geneva/New Delhi - 22 July 2019 ...

First impressions go a long way in the immune system