Monthly Archives: April 2017

Schisto Gist: Worming Our Way in the Field to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases

28/04/2017 Lauren Carruthers

On the northern shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda, communities are blighted by schistosomiasis despite 10 years of on-going treatment. This is where the Lamberton lab and the SCHISTO_PERSIST project come in. Over the next few years the project will combine parasite diagnostics and genetic analysis with social science and community engagement to develop schistosomiasis control tools that are useful and practical in these high transmission areas of Uganda.

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ACT Now: ACTwatch shares their observations AND their Datasets

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24/04/2017 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

For nine years, ACTwatch has been monitoring the state of anti-malarial and diagnostic markets across sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Today, on World Malaria Day, ACTwatch are proud to launch a series of publications that provide a comprehensive contemporary view into the levels of access to quality-assured, first-line malaria treatments and diagnostics, and… Read more »

Biology Developing World Health Medicine

A discussion on ivermectin

24/04/2017 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

The use of ivermectin in treating NTDs is well known, but its potential use in preventing malaria transmission is relatively novel. Ahead of World Malaria Day, BugBitten talks to Carlos Chaccour and Regina Rabinovich, who have published a series Ivermectin to reduce malaria transmission in Malaria Journal exploring the use of ivermectin in malaria prevention.

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Challenging your perception of malaria – quiz

challenging malaria perception

21/04/2017 Srimathy Sriskantharajah

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Is 3 to 5 years of treatment enough to eliminate preventable blindness? Mounting evidence for more integrated controls of trachoma

14/04/2017 Christina Faust

Blindness due to a bacterial infection that causes trachoma is a serious problem worldwide. The currently recommended number of rounds of mass drug administration may not be enough to ensure elimination of the disease.

Biology Developing World Health Medicine

Bites and blood meals: New insights into mosquito blood-feeding behaviour in the United Kingdom

07/04/2017 Dr Victor Brugman

The host animals from which a female mosquito takes her blood meal influences the pathogens she can be exposed to and, by extension, the potential role her species may have as a vector of disease. In this post, I outline my recent research investigating the vertebrate species fed on by mosquitoes in the United Kingdom.

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