7.30.09
Portuguese scientists show Schistosoma haematobium direct link to tumours
Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why is not clear. Now, however, two works by Portuguese researchers just out in The Journal of Experimental Pathology and the International Journal of Parasitology reveal that cells infected in laboratory with S. haematobium, acquire cancer-like characteristics and, when injected into mice develop into tumours.
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6.13.09
HIV/AIDS, Schistosomiasis, and Girls
Sub-Saharan Africa is losing the war on HIV/AIDS. Although the number of AIDS-related deaths declined between 2005 and 2007 from 2.2 million to 2.0 million, more than 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2007 alone.
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5.25.09
Africa’s 32 Cents Solution for HIV/AIDS
By preventing urogenital schistosomiasis in sexually active females through simple and low-cost methods, we have an innovative and timely opportunity to reduce and possibly interrupt HIV/AIDS
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5.13.09
The End of Lymphatic Filariasis?
Many programmes to improve health in poor countries are struggling to meet their targets, but as Moses Bockarie and David Molyneux report, elimination of lymphatic filariasis has a real chance of success.
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5.5.09
Australia's Dengue Risk Driven by Human Adaptation to Climate Change
The reduced rainfall in southeast Australia has placed this region's urban and rural communities on escalating water restrictions, with anthropogenic climate change forecasts suggesting that this drying trend will continue. To mitigate the stress this may place on domestic water supply, governments have encouraged the installation of large domestic water tanks in towns and cities throughout this region.
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4.30.09
Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
People in the bottom billion are the poorest in the world; they are often subsistence farmers, who essentially live on no money and are stuck in a poverty trap of disease, conflict, and no education. One of the most potent reinforcements of the poverty trap is the neglected tropical diseases. Almost everyone in the bottom billion has at least one of these diseases.
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4.29.09
One World Health: Neglected Tropical Diseases in a Flat World
In The World Is Flat and his other landmark books on globalization, journalist, columnist, and author Thomas Friedman eloquently articulates the prospect of a new world order and economy as a consequence of emerging new technologies, business practices, and world events [1].
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3.27.09
Strongyloidiasis – the most neglected of the neglected tropical diseases?
Soil-transmitted helminths of the genus Strongyloides (S. fuelleborni and the more prevalent S. stercoralis) are currently believed to infect an estimated 30—100 million people worldwide. The health consequences of S. stercoralis infections range from asymptomatic light infections to chronic symptomatic strongyloidiasis.
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1.26.09
Improving Control of African Schistosomiasis
Contemporary control of schistosomiasis is typically reliant upon large-scale administration of praziquantel (PZQ) to school age children.
[A]t the national level where many schools are targeted, maximising cost effectiveness and the health impact are essential requirements for ensuring longer-term sustainability (i.e. >5 years).
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