Tag: Disease in the Developing World

Credit: Conor Ashleigh, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, (CC BY 2.0, 2012) Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures ...

Accelerating advances for HIV-positive Youth in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Wits University in South Africa has collaborated in a project with Oxford University to test a United Nations development approach ...

Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa not on track for under-5 mortality reduction goal

The relatively slow pace of neonatal and under-5 mortality reduction could prevent most countries in sub-Saharan Africa from achieving targets ...

Shorter treatment for Chagas disease could be just as effective, and significantly safer

The results could help remove one of the barriers to treatment scale up and bring new hope for people with ...

Study shows shorter treatment for Chagas disease as effective, and significantly safer

Barcelona/Rio de Janeiro, 14 March 2019 - A two-week treatment course for adult patients with chronic Chagas disease showed, when ...

The Lancet: Mosquito-killing drug reduced malaria episodes by a fifth among children, according to randomised trial

First evidence that repeated mass administration of ivermectin can reduce malaria incidence in children aged five or younger without an ...

Hepatitis B vaccination in preadolescents lowered the disease incidence rate in Catalonia

March 13, 2019

An efficient programCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Introducing Hepatitis B vaccine in preadolescents meant a decline in the disease incidence rate ...

Secrets of early life revealed from less than half a teaspoon of blood

Pioneering technology could pave the way for improved newborn vaccines A global team of scientists have mapped the developmental pathway ...

Most deaths in children aged 5 to 14 in India, China, Brazil, Mexico are preventable

Deaths due to communicable diseases, transport injuries, drowning and childhood cancers are common for children in all four countries March ...

The world's adolescents — large unmet needs and growing inequalities

Today's adolescents make up the largest generation in history, but they encounter greater health challenges than 25 years ago Today's ...

Problem drinking linked to HIV, other sexually transmitted infections in Ugandan youth, study finds

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Youth living in the slums of Uganda who are infected with both HIV and sexually transmitted ...

New technology could detect Dengue fever earlier

Researchers from the University of Bath are developing a new tool for detecting the presence of Dengue fever early on, ...

AJTMH tipsheet for March 2019

March 11, 2019

Credit: Photo from Thomas Unnasch, University of South Florida Your advance look at three new studies in the American Journal ...

Announcing the ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2019