Guest blogger Dr Michael Ekuoba Gyasi discusses trachoma, and the implications of two trials recently published in PLoS Medicine evaluating the treatment…
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General Treating Trichiasis
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General MSF: initial outcomes of combination treatment for HIV and visceral leishmaniasis co-infection
Guest post by Rachel ter Horst, the third of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The International…
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Conference news Mobile treatment teams and new drugs: the fight against sleeping sickness
Bamako, Mali. Leopard-print chairs, a rather dark conference room filled mainly with African men dressed in either dark suits or colourful long…
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General HIV: why are so many mothers and children still dying?
Last year we published an Editorial arguing that the time had come to integrate prevention and treatment of HIV into maternal and…
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Conference news Eliminate the Neglect: U.S. Support Needed to Expand Assault on Neglected Diseases
Guest post by Bernard Pecoul and Peter Hotez If you asked the average American if they’ve ever heard of sleeping sickness, river…
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Neglected Diseases Poverty, Infections and Inequality in the World’s Richest Country
In a compelling editorial published this week in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Peter Hotez draws attention to the infections of poverty as…
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Conference news Cambridge Global health Conference: Students are leading the way
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, (rhonamacdonald@gmail.com) “It never ceases to amaze me how much Medsinners [members of Medsin] accomplish while studying full…
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General Is funding into Neglected Diseases being misdirected?
Yesterday I attended the launch of the third G-FINDER report on Global Funding of Research and Development into Neglected Diseases. The report…
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Neglected Diseases New treatments for Visceral Leishmaniasis
Guest blog by Dr Manica Balasegaram, a physician who is the head of the leishmaniasis clinical programme at the Drugs for Neglected…
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Neglected Diseases Curing policy at Policy Cures
Policy Cures, led by Director Mary Moran, has relaunched as an independent organization. I went to the relaunch at the London School…
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General Visceral leishmaniasis outbreak in Sudan
I read yesterday about an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) — also known as kala-azar — in Southern Sudan on the Doctors…
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Global Health Global burden of Echinococcosis just published
Back in November of last year I attended a meeting convened by the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) which aims…