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Newsletter - Issue 73 |
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A simple action could prevent the Aedes aegypti breeding
The results are very important for drawing attention to the need of restructuring the arboviral diseases prevention and control programs A study conducted by Fiocruz-Bahia researcher and professor the Collective Health Institute from the Bahia Federal University (ISC/UFBA), epidemiologist physician Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro... 
Amidst an impasse in the theme, the most affected countries are those that, besides poverty, are directly or indirectly involved in armed conflicts or extreme droughts affecting agricultural production International Support: the two sides of poor countries' assistanceNations with appalling housing conditions, lack of sanitation and disordered population growths are among those most likely to be struck by the so-called tropical diseases, as schistosomiasis and leishmaniasis. There is no doubt these countries, as South Sudan, need urgent international support. However, how far is this kind of aid positive? Expert in social mobility, poverty and inequality, PhD in Sociology, Dr. Rafael Guerreiro Osório stresses there may be two sights on the theme: both... 
This rescued dog who was wandering in Porto Alegre, had a positive leishmanisis result He was sacrificed for not responding to the treatment. Under these situations there is a dilema for animal rights activists, since while being against culling, in face of the animal's suffering the decision for euthanasia becomes unavoidable Visceral Leishmaniasis: unpunished executioner and the condemned victim, says Porto Alegre animal rights activistThe kala-azar urbanization process (human visceral leishmaniasis) is one of the most notable and intriguing epidemiological transormations ever reported in the Country. The reasons are still little knoen, but unplanned urban outskirts that lack infrastructure, under precarious sanitation conditions, are some of the many risk factors related to the phenomenon. Unfortunately, Brazil still...
SpotMalaria: a global collaborative platform to survey the major malaria parasites
Project uses state-of-the-art genomic technologies to rapidly generate usable information of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax, the two most common human malaria parasites A major challenge in eliminating malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, is determining what, how and where control measures should be used. The same method applied in the same way in two different places may not have the same impact. |
53rd MEDTROP will present social interesting subjects
Looking to the needs of a society is determinant to solve its problems The 53rd MEDTROP, despite being completely focused in academic-scientific goals, will present subjects of heavy social interest The event will count on the presence of the Forum of Social Movements of patients with neglected diseases presenting... 
Below is a selection of for this month of August of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. Priority review vouchers for tropical disease drugs simply aren’t working PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Vectors Collection: A Call for Papers Why ‘tropical disease’ is a global problem benzathine penicillin G is temporarily suspended in Brazil How prejudice helps to increase the AIDS epidemic Ceará is under a Chikungunya epidemic with almost 60 thousand confirmed cases 
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From 25 Setember to 12 October 2017 Capacity Building in Malaria with a Focus on E-Learning
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Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine - Center for Tropical Medicine - UnB |
