South African scientists are at the forefront of fighting one of the world's most dangerous viruses, which kills up to 89% of its victims. Doctors at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases have imported 44 bats from a remote area in the Democratic Republic of Congo after spending six years upgrading their research facility to […]
A cheap, common heartworm medication that is already being used to fight other parasites in Africa, could also dramatically interrupt transmission of malaria, potentially providing an inexpensive tool to fight a disease that kills almost 800 000 people each year, according to a new study published last week in the July edition of the American
A new report has revealed that the global response to help countries improve treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is underfunded and ineffective. The dossier was compiled by Doctors without Borders, Partners in Health and Treatment Action Group and looked at the MDR-TB treatment programmes in Russia, India and South Africa. THE NEW AGE
Women in Malawi and Mozambique on triple antiretroviral therapy (ART) for three months or longer before giving birth were 13 times less likely to die than women with no treatment, Maria Cristina Marazzi and colleagues reported in a retrospective cohort study of over 3 000 women in the 31 Drug Resource Enhancement Against Aids and
A sexually transmitted disease known as trichomonas vaginalis is twice as common as previously thought, and is particularly prevalent in women over 40, US doctors said on Tuesday. Using new genetic assay technologies for testing, the research, led by Johns Hopkins University, found that the overall infection rate among US women was 8.7%, compared to
13 July 2011 Africa has probably the highest burden of infectious diseases in the world, which results from not only the socio-economic setting of Africa but also to such drivers of infectious diseases as the high human-livestock-wildlife interaction and land use which are unique to Africa. Yet overall Africa has the least capacity for the
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Germany said on Friday that deadly E.coli bacteria that has killed 31 people and hit farmers across Europe, almost certainly came from contaminated bean sprouts grown at an organic farm in northern Germany. Reinhard Burger, head of the German centre for disease control, confirmed that the salad vegetable was the common denominator among the thousands
A large follow-up clinical trial to confirm the encouraging result last year of a small study that tested an antiretroviral-based microbicide gel, which showed that it could reduce HIV infection in women by almost 40%, is due to begin in a few weeks. Dubbed the FACTS 001 study, the clinical trial seeks to expand on
South Africa is making real strides in shifting HIV treatment to lower levels of health workers, which enables more patients to be reached. Ugandan Prof. David Serwadda said that the shortage of health workers, particularly doctors, affects the expansion of HIV services, with the entire African continent only producing 6 200 new doctors a
7 June 2011 New cases of enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causing haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) continue to be reported from Germany. As of 6 June 2011, the Robert Koch Institute (www.rki.de) recorded 630 cases of HUS and an additional 1 601 cases of EHEC. The total number of officially reported deaths has risen to
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