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The FAO initiative seeks to eradicate hunger worldwide, based on the example of Latin America and the Caribbean - with the development of laws, policies and programs for food and nutrition security
One in eight people worldwide is dramatically malnourished. This is the conclusion of the 2012 report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), entitled "State of Food Insecurity in the World". It is the equivalent to 870 million people and the scenario is alarming with 2.5 million deaths of children. The undernourished represent 12.5% of the world population. The figure increases to 23.2%...
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Of all the products that have been approved in this decade, only 4% were devoted to neglected diseases. Of the 850 approved, only 37 were focused on these diseases
Weighing up a decade of achievements and challenges focused on initiatives for diseases that affect neglected populations was the motto of the medical conference "Lives at Stake.
The high prevalence of schistosomiasis coincides with the low socioeconomic status and sanitation of our population
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers schistosomiasis the second most important disease among parasitic and infectious ones, after malaria. In Brazil, the most endemic states are Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia and Minas Gerais. However...
The solution to dengue is undergoing changes related to the quality of life in cities. Infrastructure problems have existed in Brazil for many years and the redemption of this social debt is a task for many governments
What do Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo have in common? A sad similarity in the large number of dengue cases already reported in 2013. In 27 days, Espírito Santo - the 3rd state with the highest number, behind Mato Grosso do Sul and Minas Gerais - recorded 5,325 cases, according to the State Department of Health. Minas Gerais has recorded more than 13,000...
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Integrated programs for control and prevention need to involve all possible tools, including infrastructure support, access to portable drinking water, adequate sanitation and a vaccination program
In 2012, outbreaks of cholera emerged in the Caribbean, West African Coast, and as always, on the Indian Subcontinent. The outbreak, which killed many Haitians, was brought by the forces of the United Nations (UN) coming from Nepal. Meanwhile, cholera demoralized the well-organized Cuban health system and showed, once again, how vulnerable the developing world still is, despite modern technological advances. Moreover, cholera is one of the best examples of how terrible life in slums is, where, perhaps...
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Assembled in India, BRICS Ministers of Health commit to support the global fight against AIDS
Latin America and Caribbean Initiative no hunger becomes a world model
Outbreak of deadly epidemic alarms U.S.
Malaria drug association with hemolytic anemia unclear
As epidemic swells, low immunisation levels faulted
Below is a selection of for this month of february of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Antiretroviral therapy in early HIV infection
Public health. China partners with gay groups on HIV screening
Short-course antiretroviral therapy in primary HIV infection
Enhanced CD4+ T-cell recovery with earlier HIV-1 antiretroviral therapy
Biology of phlebotomine sand flies as vectors of disease agents
13 a 17 de Maio de 2013
Worldleish 5 – V Congresso Mundial de Leishmaniose, Porto de Galinhas/PE
19-23 May 2013
13th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine, Maastricht, The Netherlands
10 de setembro de 2013
8th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and Internacional Health, Copenhagen
10 de setembro de 2013
5th Conference of the Scandinavian-Baltic Society for Parasitology, Copenhagen
Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UNB
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