The World Health Organization urges action against HIV drug resistance threat
The World Health Organization (WHO) alerts countries to the increasing trend of resistance to HIV…
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LSTM awarded £11 million by NIHR to establish new research unit and groups
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has been awarded £11 million by the National…
New tech launched to fight hunger, malnutrition in Africa
International researchers on Monday (30 May 2017) launched a new computing technology to fight hunger…
Despite global decline in child deaths, progress varies by country
Global child and adolescent deaths have decreased from 14.18 million in 1990 to 7.26 million…
Multidrug-resistant typhoid on the increase in sub-Saharan Africa
The incident of multidrug-resistant cases of typhoid is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, making it difficult…
Government urged to protect kids against Rotavirus with vaccine
Medical experts have urged the government to include the rotavirus vaccine in the National Immunisation…
World’s population increasingly urban
We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives…
Hypertension now a cause for worry in Africa and Asia
The burden of hypertension has now shifted from developed nations to low- and middle-income countries…
Influenza seasonality in the tropics and subtropics: a CDC collaborative study
A new collaborative study by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and global…
Rabies vaccine effective even after warm storage
A Washington State University (WSU)-led research team determined rabies vaccines stored at warmer temperatures still…