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Central African Republic: Government Must Ensure Security
CAR 2013 © Francois Beda/MSF A young patient, wounded in the fighting between armed groups, is treated in an MSF facility. BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK, APRIL 10, 2013—Uncontrolled armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) are spreading chaos and leaving civilians without urgently needed medical care and humanitarian aid, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. MSF's facilities have been robbed and looted on multiple occasions, and entire communities are cut off from medical care due to...
Source: MSF News - April 10, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Aid increased for refugees fleeing violence in DRC
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing urgently needed medical care and water and sanitation in western Uganda, following an influx of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing insecurity in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in mid-July. Uganda 2013 © Andres-Romero/MSFMSF staff providing services to Congolese refugees who have fled into Uganda. Around 22,000 refugees are now living in the Bubukwanga transit camp,18 kilometresfrom the DRC border, in a space designed for only 12,500 people. MSF is providing medical care including maternity healthcare, vaccinations and nutrition treatment, as well as wor...
Source: MSF News - August 27, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Uganda NEWS Frontpage Democratic Republic of Congo Source Type: news

Creepy Crawlie Therapy?
Discussion Humans are only one species among the multitudes that inhabit the earth. While many species are used by humans for food, clothing or shelter, as a higher evolved organism, humans are particularly aware of other species that move as they could be a potential predator or cause injury. This wariness is protective, but moving animal species can be domesticated (e.g. dogs, horses), farmed (e.g. cattle, goats) or harvested (e.g. fish, silk) for human use for food, clothing or shelter and also for medicinal use. Learning Point Medical leeches have been used since ancient times. The most commonly used leech is Hirudo me...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 3, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatriceducationmin Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Health Consequences of Typhoon Haiyan in the Eastern Visayas Region Using a Syndromic Surveillance Database
Conclusions The predominance of primary care conditions seen in the study may be used for planning for future disasters and signals disaster managers to focus on basic health care and public health measures. The trends observed for consultation rates across time may be used as guides for disaster response and recovery. Interventions targeting young, elderly, and impoverished populations are recommended. Community health centers should be prioritized in recovery and rehabilitation efforts. Competing Interests The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Corresponding Author Miguel Antonio Salazar: miguel.s...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - February 6, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Miguel Antonio Salazar Source Type: research

Antibiotic-Induced Disruption of Gut Microbiota Alters Local Metabolomes and Immune Responses
In conclusion, our study indicated that 3 weeks antibiotic administration induced elevated expression of many cytokines in mouse colon, suggesting that there might be a direct interaction between antibiotics and host tissue. Furthermore, different antibiotics used can lead to different effects on mouse models. Broad spectrum antibiotic enrofloxacin had a stronger effect on the cytokines response in the colon. Vancomycin can induce significant changes in composition and metabolic profiling of gut microbiota. Compared to enrofloxacin and vancomycin, polymixin B sulfate had a weakest effect. The differences observed in compos...
Source: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - April 23, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

West First Policies Expose Myths
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 31 2020 (IPS) As the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic shifts from China to the developed West, all too many rich countries are acting selfishly, invoking the ‘national interest’, by banning exports of vital medical supplies. US President Donald Trump has reportedly gone further by seeking exclusive rights to a future coronavirus vaccine, although the report has been denied by a German drug company and some investors believed to be involved. Europe first Following France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland now also want to ban the export of cer...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Anis Chowdhury Source Type: news

Thousands of displaced civilians at risk in Katanga province
As tensions increase between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in Katanga province of Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to avoid harming civilians who have fled by the thousands into the surrounding bush. The exact extent of the displacement is hard to quantify, but most of the villages along the 115 kilometre road from Shamwana to Dubie are empty, as are villages along the 70 kilometre stretch between Shamwana and Mpiana. Democratic Republic of Congo 2012 © Sandra Smiley/MSFPatients waiting in the inpatient department of hospital MSF is supporting in Kinkondja, K...
Source: MSF News - January 25, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Democratic Republic of Congo Frontpage NEWS Source Type: news

DRC: Thousands of Displaced Civilians at Risk in Katanga Province
DRC 2012 © Sandra Smiley/MSF Patients in the inpatient department of an MSF hospital in Katanga Province. NEW YORK, JANUARY 25, 2013—As tensions increase between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in Katanga province, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, all parties must avoid harming thousands of civilians who have fled into the surrounding bush, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The exact extent of the displacement is hard to quantify, but most of the villages along a 115-kilometer [about 71 miles] road from Shamwana to Dubie are empty, as are v...
Source: MSF News - January 25, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Slideshow Fighting a Years-Long Measles Epidemic in Congo
next DRC 2013 © Tristan Pfund/MSF A measles epidemic that began in 2010 and affected the entire country continues to sicken tens of thousands of children in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). # prev | next DRC 2013 © Tristan Pfund/MSF The epidemic has spread to areas recently hit by a malaria outbreak between May and September 2012, causing exceptionally high mortality rates among children under five years old. # prev | next DRC 2013 © Tristan Pfund/MSF This epidemic has proven particularly deadly among the very young and the popula...
Source: MSF Multimedia - March 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

The violence has ended but the emergency continues
Serge St-Louis recently returned from nine months working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Central African Republic (CAR). He was in the field in late 2012, when Seleka, a new coalition of Central African rebel groups, took control of several towns before finally entering Bangui, the capital, in late March. He updates us on the post-conflict situation, including the issues and outlook for the country, its health care system and MSF. At the height of the crisis, confrontations, shootings and abuses occurred daily. Today, tension and violence have subsided and we are now in a particularly delicate phase – a sort o...
Source: MSF News - May 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Central African Republic NEWS Frontpage Source Type: news

Central African Republic Abandoned to its Fate
CAR 2013 © Corentin Fohlen/Divergence Mothers and children at Paoua Hospital BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK, July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned in a report released today. CAR, plunged into chaos following a coup on March 24, led by the Seleka group, remains politically unstable, with its population much ...
Source: MSF News - July 9, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

U.S. reports malaria vaccine breakthrough
U.S. researchers reported a breakthrough Thursday in the search for a vaccine for malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that sickens millions worldwide. More than three dozen volunteers received multiple, intravenous doses of a vaccine produced with a ...
Source: WDSU.com - Health - August 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Deadly Gaps Persist in New Drug Development for Neglected Diseases
This study reports a slight increase of 2.4 new products/year for 2000-2011 and predicts 4.7 new products/year through 2018. "Although strides have been made in the last decade, we still see deadly gaps in new medicines for some of the world's least visible patients," said Dr. Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, medical director of DNDi.  "We need to get more treatment candidates, NCEs or existing ones for repurposing, into and through the R&D pipeline to fundamentally change the way we manage these diseases."   "Our patients are still waiting for true medical breakthroughs," said D...
Source: MSF News - October 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Chalcone and Curcumin Derivatives: A Way ahead for Malarial Treatment.
Abstract Malaria has been a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The global malaria situation is increasingly being challenging owing to lack of credible malaria vaccine and the emergence of drug resistance to most of the available Antimalarial. They demand search for novel generation of drugs. Versatility and flexibility for structural modification of natural and synthetic analogues of curcumin and chalcone have been explored extensively for designing new antimalarial agent. Recent advances to our knowledge of parasite biology as well a...
Source: Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry - October 25, 2013 Category: Chemistry Authors: Kumar D, Kumar M, Kumar A, Singh SK Tags: Mini Rev Med Chem Source Type: research

Malaria vaccines: past, present and future
The currently available malaria control tools have allowed malaria elimination in many regions but there remain many regions where malaria control has made little progress. A safe and protective malaria vaccine would be a huge asset for malaria control. Despite the many challenges, efforts continue to design and evaluate malaria vaccine candidates. These candidates target different stages in the life cycle of Plasmodia. The most advanced vaccine candidates target the pre-erythrocytic stages in the life cycle of the parasite and include RTS,S/AS01, which has progressed through clinical development to the stage that it may b...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - November 12, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: von Seidlein, L., Bejon, P. Tags: Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, ADC Global child health, Travel medicine, Tropical medicine (infectious diseases), Vaccination / immunisation Source Type: research