NTDs, poverty, and ecosystem destruction. Predicting disease risk and breaking the poverty trap
Researchers use socioeconomic and ecosystem degradation variables to improve the predictive accuracy of disease risk models for NTDs in Brazil.
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Designing emergency refugee camps to be more resilient
Emergency settlements are often set up to provide temporary shelter, food, and medical aid to those affected by the disaster until they can rebuild… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC Series – February 2023
What do HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis implants look like, that women would actually use? Which transcriptional changes led to the… Read more »
A tsetse fly aphrodisiac is identified
New research sheds more light on the odors involved in tsetse fly mating behaviour.
Text4Life: A mobile phone application to connect pregnant women with emergency transport and obstetric care in rural Nigeria
Access to skilled maternity care is crucial for reducing maternal mortality and morbidity and meeting the Sustainable Development… Read more »
The demise of the Guinea worm
Following previous setbacks, an announcement in January this year suggests Guinea worm disease may finally be on its way to… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series – December 2022
Does the discovery of a neoplasm in a Triassic amphibian complement our knowledge about the origin of cancer? Is there a link… Read more »
Local knowledge systems: how can they help to guide ecological transition and a freer world?
Local knowledge systems, which over millennia have been a pillar of people’s livelihoods in many peripheral communities… Read more »
Liver stage malaria parasites: does it matter where they are located?
Malaria parasites multiply in liver cells prior to invading red blood cells. Recent work has been investigating whether the… Read more »
“Yathu Yathu”(For us, By us!): an innovative and co-designed intervention to deliver peer-led community-based sexual and reproductive health service to adolescents and young people in Lusaka, Zambia
In a blog for World AIDS Day, Mwelwa Phiri and her colleagues discuss the Yathu Yathu trial of community-based peer-led sexual and… Read more »