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Health is one of the most important requirements for social and economic development, and facing the tropical diseases issue must be a priority in the national and international agendas
Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America are the most affected regions by tropical diseases, as highlights Dr. Eric Stobbaerts, executive director of the Medication initiative for the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative – DNDi in South America. He explains that these diseases strike mainly the disfavored populations living in rural regions or in the cities'...
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Scientific independence of the Tropics, deeper investments, researchers focused in the collective well-being and the press' support are fundamental for the change
Most Tropical Medicine societies are, ironically, out of the tropics. This situation owes to the colonial origins of Tropical Medicine, dedicated to the imperial interests of the Eastern Europe large cities and the United States, and later the London School of Tropical Medicine. Another fact that explains the concentration...
A recent study showed that implementing rapid diagnostic exams for malaria in endemic countries must happen along with new formation programs
One of the common procedures to assure immediate access to malaria treatment is the rapid diagnostic exam (RDE), adopted especially where and when there are no satisfying conditions for the use of a microscope. However, the method still needs enhancements, even...
The main benefit of the liposomal amphotericin B is its low toxicity, reduced treatment time and possibility of use in patients with contraindications, intolerance or bad response to other medications
"An important contribution in the scientific process needed to acknowledge the efficiency and formal indication of a drug with certain purpose". This is the opinion of Dr. Armando Schubach, researcher and chief of the Leishmaniasis Surveillance Laboratory at the National Infectology Institute from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro, while commenting the study that defends the use of...
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Dr. Alon Warburg, specialist in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, introduces his research into infectious diseases, specifically the disease leishmaniasis, and how his research focuses on the actual vector – the sandfly – and interrupting the contact between the sandfly and humans
Dr. Alon Warburg comments in an interview to the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine about the article published by The Nation about the health risks posed by coil repellents, which must be burned.
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One stop shop toilet project for densely populated areas of Africa launched
Hunting the 'fiery serpent': The quest to wipe out Guinea worm
New Method For Isolating And Sequencing Malaria Parasites Developed at Texas Biomed
Researchers say AIDS is still concentrated in the large cities
Dengue fever through blood transfusion?
Below is a selection of for this month of june of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2013
Parasite burden and severity of malaria in Tanzanian children
August 03-08 2014
XIV International Course of Molecular Epidemiology in Emerging Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
Salvador/BA
August 8 and 9 - 2014
2nd Scientific Meeting of Former Residents and Intern Doctors of the ERII
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