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Registrations for the 2016 Medtrop are open
The articles can be submitted until June, 15. The selected works will be presented during the MEDTROP, that will take place from August 21 to 24 in Maceió, Alagoas The website of the Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (2016 Medtrop) is online. Besides the registrations to join the event, the website is also available for scientific papers submission. The articles can be submitted until June, 15, and will be examined by the Congress' scientific committee. The selected papers will be presented during the MEDTROP, which will take place from August 21 to 24. 2500 participants and over 1000 scientific communications are expected in Medtrop 2016. 
According to doctor Wolinsky, the key to achieve a functional cure is eliminating the infected cells in the reservoirs that protect the viruses from antiretroviral drugs HIV replicates in the body even when undetectable in the bloodstreamA HIV patient can reduce the viral load to undetectable levels by continuous use of powerful medications. However, when the treatment is interrupted, the virus quickly returns to the bloodstream. How is this possible? The answer to this mystery was recently found in a study lead by researchers from NorthWestern University, in the USA and published on Nature. According to the research, the HIV persists in the body in a reservoir in lymphoid tissue. 
One of the themes with greater impact was the presentation of the preliminary results that confirmed Zika virus can easily be spread by Culex mosquitoes After great audience success, the first symposium on Zika virus in the world is to be repeated during the 2016 MEDTROPThe expectations for the 2016 MEDTROP increased after the discussions of A, B, C, D and E workshops involving Zika virus, held in Recife in March. This is due to the fact that the event in Pernambuco, the first scientific event about the virus in the world, should be replicated during the 52nd Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (MEDTROP).
Even with a record number of people under HIV treatment, new strategies to contain the epidemic are needed
Young people are presenting higher HIV incidence rates than presented by the 1980 and 1990's generations This January the federal government released the numbers of people under HIV treatment in the Unified Health System (SUS) has increased by 97% - from 231 thousand in 2009 to 455 thousand... |
Study on deaths by tropical diseases reveal the impact of Chagas disease, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis and leprosy in Brazil in the last 12 years
Brazil is the main responsible for the high morbimortality load related to NTDs in Latin America, with a complex association of different determinant social factors A research on deaths by neglected tropical diseases in Brazil, between 2000 and 2011, showed that 76,847 people died from diseases such as Chagas (58,928 deaths)... 
Africa: Did African Travellers Introduce the Zika Virus to Brazil? It's Highly Unlikely Africa's largest fresh water lake said to be major waterborne disease breeding site MAN TAKING HIV-PREVENTION DRUG TESTS POSITIVE FOR HIV Health: Vatican suggests to break the "silence curtain" regarding Rare Diseases Google and Unicef firm partnership to produce a map of Zika infections 
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Below is a selection of for this month of march of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. Structure- and function-based design of Plasmodium-selective proteasome inhibitors 
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August 21 and 24 - 2016 Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (2016 Medtrop)
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Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB |
