Liberia: W.H.O. Donates Drugs to Ministry of Health
[New Dawn] To strengthen Liberia's surveillance for Human African Trypanosomiasis, improve infection prevention and laboratory services as well as increase vaccine coverage through routine immunization, and manage critical health emergencies, the World Health Organization has donated essential medical supplies to the Ministry of Health in Monrovia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 5, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Aid and Assistance Health and Medicine Liberia West Africa Source Type: news
Antiparasitic Wins FDA Approval for High-Risk Neuroblastoma Antiparasitic Wins FDA Approval for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
The FDA approved eflornithine to treat this rare cancer in adult and pediatric patients. The drug has also been approved to reduce excessive facial hair growth and to treat sleeping sickness.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - December 14, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Hematology-Oncology Source Type: news
Already-Available Drug Could Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes Already-Available Drug Could Help Treat Type 1 Diabetes
The ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor α-difluoromethylornithine, used to treat African sleeping sickness and unwanted hair growth, may also protect β cells of people with new-onset type 1 diabetes.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines)
Source: Medscape Diabetes Headlines - November 20, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news
Africa: Bill Gates Talks Gene Drives, mRNA, and U.S.$40m in Science Funding
[allAfrica] Dakar -- Infectious diseases continue to be the major causes of deaths in Africa. The burden of existing, emerging and re-emerging diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cholera, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness, Ebola and SARS continues to grow - and once you move beyond mortality statistics, the huge s ocio-economic costs - care and treatment, hospital admissions, productivity loss, and disability reveals a heavy toll on the continent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 31, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
'Sleeping sickness' disease that kills up to 500,000 each year - 4 key symptoms
The devastating disease has just a few subtle symptoms to look out for before it enters the central nervous system. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Africa: Innovative, Sustainable Funding Needed to Deal with Neglected Tropical Diseases
[allAfrica] Gaborone -- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect over a billion people worldwide. These diseases, like Mycetoma and African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness are preventable and treatable, but if untreated they can debilitate, disfigure, and kill. Despite affecting so many people, especially in underdeveloped countries, budgets for NTD-related programs are often limited. Of the 1 billion people worldwide affected by NTDs, an estimated 40% live in 47 African countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 28, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Aid and Assistance External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa NGOs and Civil Society Sustainable Development Source Type: news
Africa: Young African Scientists Shine During Global Conference to Tackle Tsetse Fly, Sleeping Sickness
[Capital FM] Mombasa -- A 25 year-old scientist has shattered the glass ceiling for young women in scientific research, after she was ranked the best during a global conference in Kenya. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 22, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Source Type: news
Africa: Kenya Hosts Global Conference On Tackling 'Sleeping Sickness' in Africa
[Capital FM] Mombasa -- More than 300 participants from across Africa are meeting this week in Kenya, to discuss ways of tackling the African Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness or Nagana. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 18, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa HIV-Aids and STDs East Africa Health and Medicine Kenya Source Type: news
Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy
The World Health Organization says round 7 million people die prematurely each year due to air pollution. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Aug 2 2023 (IPS) Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity’s well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of the World Health Organization (WHO).
“Climate change is unquestionably affecting our health every day,” says Vanessa Kerry– a renowned global health expert and medical doctor – who was appointed the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Busani Bafana Tags: Climate Action Climate Change Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Source Type: news
Flies like blue objects because they mistake colour for food, scientists say
Finding may help fight against diseases spread by flies and make traps more effectiveBiting flies are strongly attracted to blue objects because they mistake the colour for an animal they want to feast on, scientists have said.The finding may help the fight against diseases that are spread by flies, such as sleeping sickness, by making traps more effective.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Steven Morris Tags: Science Animals Research and development Medicine Insects Wildlife Source Type: news
Global Community Celebrates Medical Innovations and Milestones Since Defining Leprosy Discovery 150 Years Ago
Yohei Sasakawa, WHO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, speaks at the two-day Bergen International Conference on Hansen’s Disease. The conference coincided with the 150th anniversary of the discovery of Mycobacterium leprae by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen. Credit: Thor Brødreskift/Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Jun 22 2023 (IPS) The 1873 discovery of Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy by Norwegian doctor Gerhard Armauer Hansen, remains one of the greatest paradigm shifts in medical history, a true revolution.
“Before the great discover...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 22, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joyce Chimbi Tags: Conferences Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative Source Type: news
Study provides insight into miscarriages in tsetse flies
Tsetse are biting flies that transmit the parasites causing sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in animals. Female tsetse flies, which give birth to enormous, adult-sized live young, can experience miscarriages and these are more likely as they get older. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - June 15, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research; Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Biological Sciences; Press Release Source Type: news
Africa: Q&A - Neglected Diseases Face Final Funding Hurdle
[SciDev.Net] Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - a set of 20 diseases including river blindness and sleeping sickness - affect more than a billion people globally, with Africa accounting for almost 40 per cent of the global burden. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
“ I Was Blind, But Now I See ” – Celebrating Malawi’s Progress on World NTD Day
Vainesi, a former trachoma trichiasis patient, cheers in celebration knowing that trachoma has been eliminated in Malawi. Vainesi had suffered with the pain caused by trachoma for 10 years before a local disability mobiliser encouraged her to go to the hospital for treatment. By Lazarus McCarthy ChakweraLILONGWE, Jan 30 2023 (IPS) “I was blind, but now I see.” This is what Vainesi, from Salima District in Central Malawi, said after surgery to treat trachoma. A mother of three, Vainesi had been unable to work or provide for her family once the disease began to affect her eyesight.
Vainesi is one of millions of Malawians...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Source Type: news
Africa: Eliminating Neglected Diseases in Africa - There Are Good Reasons for Hope
[The Conversation Africa] Togo had reason to celebrate in 2022 when it became the first country in the world to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases. The west African nation stamped out Guinea worm disease in 2011, lymphatic filariasis in 2017, sleeping sickness in 2020, and trachoma last year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 27, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
