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Tuberculosis threatens one-third of the world’s population. The World Health Organization declared tuberculosis a global health emergency in 1993. The magnitude of the problem changed dramatically during the 1990s due to deteriorating control in some parts of the world (notably eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union), the spread of HIV, and population growth. Without a coordinated control effort, tuberculosis will infect an estimated 1 billion more people by 2020, killing 70 million.
Review Articles
5 Feb 2010
Mobile phones for health: high hopes but research lacking
There is a lot of hype surrounding “mHealth” – the use of mobile phones in health care – but where’s the evidence that it works?
Source: TropIKA.net
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4 Jan 2010
Why are men more likely to be diagnosed with TB?
A discussion article concludes that men are more susceptible to tuberculosis and calls for research to explain the biological basis for this phenomenon.
Source: PLoS Medicine
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News
17 Mar 2010
Open source: the way forward in the search for new treatments for the infectious diseases of poverty?
Ever heard of almost 3000 researchers sharing data and expertise to create a new drug without pay or hope of patenting it? That’s exactly what’s happening in India today, and it is called open-source drug discovery.
Source: TropIKA.net
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26 Feb 2010
In brief
TropIKA.net looks at some recent news reports on the infectious diseases of poverty.
Source: Media reports
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Editorial Opinions
15 Jan 2010
Disease control in Haiti after the earthquake
The burden of infectious disease in Haiti is already the worst in the Americas region. Will this new disaster disrupt long-term efforts to bring these diseases under control?
Source: TropIKA.net
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28 Jan 2009
Waging Peace through Neglected Tropical Disease Control: A US Foreign Policy for the Bottom Billion
Public-health and foreign-policy communities should embrace medical diplomacy and NTD control, as a means to combat terrorism.
Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Research Articles
4 Mar 2010
TB–HIV coinfection: trial shows it is best to treat both infections at the same time
A South African trial confirms that there is no need to wait until TB treatment is complete before starting antiretroviral drugs for HIV. The death rate is lower when integrated therapy is given.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
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24 Feb 2010
New understanding of how two antibiotics attack drug-resistant strains of TB
Researchers have shown how viomycin and capreomycin bind with the ribosome of M. tuberculosis. With this knowledge it may be possible to develop new drugs.
Source: Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
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Reports
13 Jan 2010
Funding for TB research increases worldwide
But what is now being spent is barely one quarter of what tuberculosis specialists say is needed.
Source: Treatment Action Group (TAG); Stop TB Partnership
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18 Dec 2009
Neglected disease research & development: new times, new trends
The global budget for research into the infectious diseases of poverty is little changed and AIDS continues to receive a disproportionately large share of the total. But India and Brazil are emerging as key players, particular for the more neglected diseases.
Source: George Institute
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