Harnessing drones and AI to combat malaria in Ghana
...SORA Technology and the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), and is funded by the Government of Japan.
Claude Bragard, UC Louvain (BE), on #xylella conference session on Pierce’s disease of grapevines
Martina Cendoya from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA) on monitoring and modelling #xylella fastidiosa epidemics at 5th European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa
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Historically, the rare disease community has met persistent barriers when forced to follow clinical and regulatory pat...
What do we know about the biology of Xylella fastidiosa — and how can it be controlled?
🎥 Leonardo De La Fuente explains the focus of his session at the conference.
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Pasquale Saldarelli, chair of the session on Advances on control of Xylella fastidiosa explains the importance of biocontrol.
The 5th Xylella Conference is taking place in Mola di Bari, Italy, fr...
#Ebola update: more than 1000 confirmed cases have been reported in #DRC, including 254 deaths.
100 patients have recovered so far, which shows that for many, the virus can be stopped with timely health care.
In the past month, @WHO, @AfricaCDC and partners have supported @MinSanteRDC to inc...
Preventing Mosquito-Borne Diseases with Insecticides
...l professionals apply insecticides to kill mosquitoes and prevent the spread of disease. They use two kinds of insecticides: larvicides that kill mosquito larvae and adulticid...
From loss to hope: Mbo's message to sleeping sickness patients | One Dose, One Cure
... received acoziborole as part of clinical trials run by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in the DRC and Guinea. Today, she shares a powerful message: trust t...
LIVE | Dr Jean Kaseya on the DRC Ebola Response: Contact Tracing Gaps and Continental Coordination
...ew with Al Jazeera, Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), provides an assessment of the ongoing Ebola outbre...
In "Disease Knows No Politics," former National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni remind...
How do you prevent diseases from spreading during major sporting events?
That’s the question Caribbean Public H...
Acompanhe o lançamento do curso “Vigilância, diagnóstico, tratamento e manejo de pacientes com leishmanioses“, realizado no dia 18 de junho, a partir das 9h, no Auditório Sonia Andrade, na Fiocruz ...
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria remains deadly and progress is stalling, which means new tools are needed. #NowWeCanNowWeMust #EndMalaria
Gene drive increases the chance of inheritance so a chosen genetic trait spreads through a mosquito population.
It is a new tool being explored to reduce malaria transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa....
Gene drive could complement bed nets, insecticides, and vaccines; investment in research needs to be increased. Gene drive increases the chance of inheritance so a chosen genetic trait spreads thro...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing signs of progress – but significant challenges remai...
MSF and Tajikistan’s Ministry of Health have completed the Zero TB project in Kulob, strengthening TB diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in one of the country’s most affected regions. Through inn...