Thursday, 22 July 2010

MALARIA: King Tut

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King Tutankhamun died from sickle-cell disease, not malaria, say experts. A team from Hamburg's Bernhard Noct Institute for Tropical Med...

POVERTY: BANGLADESH: Unemployment, food prices spur growing hunger

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DHAKA, 22 July 2010 (IRIN) - Rising unemployment and food prices and a sluggish economy are taking their toll on Bangladesh, where a growin...

MALNUTRITION: WEST AFRICA: The Sahel's nutrition revolution

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DAKAR, 21 July 2010 (IRIN) - Food shortages and high rates of malnutrition have long been a reality in the Sahel, but the understanding of ...

MALARIA: Gates grant funds production of genetically engineered malaria drug

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he Institute for OneWorld Health, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, said it has received $10.7 million from the Gates Foundation to begin com...

MALARIA: Cambodia: Malaria Drug Resistance in Cambodia Not a Surprise

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Health officials in Cambodia have found a strain of malaria that's showing resistance to the main anti-malaria drug, known as artemisini...

MALNUTRITION: NIGER: Aid caravan for the east

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DAKAR, 21 July 2010 (IRIN) - An extraordinary crisis calls for an original response: The authorities and aid organizations in Diffa, eastern...

MALNUTRITION: CHAD: Moving the aid spotlight west

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DAKAR, 20 July 2010 (IRIN) - Eastern Chad is well known as one of the most challenging settings for emergency relief in the world due to t...

MALARIA: genetic alteration of mosquitoes

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Michael Riehle is holding a container full of mosquitoes. But he doesn’t necessarily want the insects to die. He wants them to live long eno...

MALARIA: Ghana: Artesunate-Amododiaquine and community understanding

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Background Artesunate-amodiaquine (AS-AQ) was introduced in Ghana as the first line drug for treatment of uncomplicated malaria in 2004. We ...

MALARIA: "Zooprophylaxis." The diversion of disease carrying insect from humans to animals

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The diversion of disease carrying insect from humans to animals may reduce transmission of diseases such as malaria. The use of animals to m...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010

BIOTERRORISM: North Carolina preparedness

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North Carolina will be the national model for a new system to detect the earliest signs of an impending bioterrorism attack and provide warn...

BIOTERRORISM: George Mason University

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A new biodefense research facility was opened on the campus of George Mason University in Virginia. Some 50 scientists and researchers emplo...

MALNUTRITION: Funding changes needed

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World leaders meeting at the G8 and G20 summits will not succeed in improving mother and child health in the developing world unless they fu...

MALNUTRITION: West Africa photographs

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More than ten million people across West Africa are facing severe hunger and malnutrition because of drought, poor harvests and rising food ...

MALNUTRITION: Sahel

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The United Nations Children Fund, (UNICEF) has raised concern over the growing nutritional crisis in the Sahelian countries of Niger, Mali,C...

MALNUTRITION: the key to maternal and child health

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A medical aid group says if G8 leaders want to improve mother and child health, they must first solve the malnutrition problem. Doctors With...

POVERTY: Rethinking priorities

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20 Jul 2010 Developments reported on TropIKA.net within the last few days have challenged some common assumptions made about the infectious ...

MALARIA: Duke Global Health Institute to conduct IR for malaria control

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20 Jul 2010 The Duke Global Health Institute, USA, has received a $2.2-million, 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to...
Tuesday, 20 July 2010

TUBERCULOSIS: Rifapentine is granted Orphan Drug Status

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July 1, 2010 – Shorter treatment duration with rifapentine expected to bring significant benefits to patients - Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: ...

POVERTY: Multifaceted assessment

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Poverty is multifaceted and highly complex. In most situations, poverty is best reduced by helping people help themselves – on their terms. ...