There’s a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
Studies on mortality in sub-Saharan Africa haven’t focused on the effects of climate change.
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African countries need to take into account the effects environmental changes, like climate change, have on their ability to deal with food security, poverty reduction and lowering mortality rates.
Leishmaniasis is caused by a parasite that is carried by a female sandfly.
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Malvika Verma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Treating infectious diseases is a huge challenge because patients often fail to take the medicine for the long duration, especially for tuberculosis. Now there’s a new device that may help.
Vector control targeting the larval phase of the mosquito’s life cycle can be successful.
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Avoiding malaria could be as simple as “ABCD” if the proper care is taken.
Malaria detection campaign in the Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina-Faso) in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé.
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Blood tests used to diagnose malaria can’t detect low levels of the disease causing parasite and are hard to administer. A new portable spit test may provide a better alternative.
Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup.
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Significant new insights are emerging for the treatment of malaria, and eventually its eradication.
A female Anopheles stephensi mosquito bites a human to get a blood meal through its pointed proboscis. A droplet of blood is expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself.
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Researchers are exploring genetic forms of population control called gene drives that spread traits faster that happens naturally. The goal is to curb mosquito-borne diseases like malaria.
View of Taichung City, Taiwan, behind a mosquito net.
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed fear and suspicion, especially since the research happens behind closed doors, away from the public. Now scientists and architects are trying to change that model.
Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases