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African Solutions to African Problems: Reframing Science Innovation
Through collaboration we can build on the foundations of our knowledge to bring forward innovative ways to address health challenges that benefit all of humanity. Credit: WHOBy Quarraisha Abdool KarimDURBAN, South Africa, Jun 8 2022 (IPS) Africa is plagued by many epidemics — from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio — but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to beating these deadly diseases is turning inward to existing expertise and finding locally driven solutions. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has placed public health back in the global spotlight and has also serve...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 8, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Quarraisha Abdool Karim Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Eradicating Polio Would Eradicate So Much Tragedy
A Pakistani child receives a dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Matshidiso MoetiBRAZZAVILLE, Mar 22 2022 (IPS) In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just beyond where paved roads transition to dirt, an undiagnosed polio infection paralysed a three-year-old girl. From one day to the next, the child’s life was changed forever. Among Africa’s public health community, we had looked at our successes against wild poliovirus as a cause for optimism. In the 1990s, the disease paralysed more than 75,000 African children every year. But following extensive immunization campaigns coupl...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Matshidiso Moeti Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Polio Source Type: news

5 Year Old New Jersey Girl Died from the MMR Vaccine, Holly’s Law Created
Conclusion We leave you with words from Robin: “My family and I hope that Holly’s story will make a difference and help you realize that you must be aware of the risks of vaccinations, just as you make yourself aware of the risks of any medical procedure. We hope to make change, and one very important improvement must be that the pediatricians acknowledge that there are vaccine reactions, that moderate to serious and even fatal vaccine reactions do exist and occur at least 100 times more than is reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).  We are still very disappointed and disgusted with the actio...
Source: vactruth.com - September 24, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Holly Marie Stavola Holly's Law MMR vaccine National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Robin Stavola truth about vaccines Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs

The Tortoise and the Hare: Guinea Worm, Polio and the Race to Eradication
Introduction Smallpox is no longer with us. Rinderpest, a measles-like virus of cattle, was formally declared extinct in 2011.1 What other diseases might follow? This paper looks at some clear candidates that were due for eradication this year and explores the chances of success and remaining obstacles for guinea worm and polio. The race is on. The classic fable of Æsop is known almost universally by both children and adults. Somehow the tale of an overconfident hare losing a race to a much maligned and slower tortoise has entered our consciousness, although the exact moral lesson is ambiguous. Should we accept the conv...
Source: PLOS Currents Outbreaks - August 31, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: brettsutton Source Type: research

How was Henrietta Harmed?
The HeLa LegacyI recently had the pleasure of meeting two of Henrietta Lacks’ descendants when I participated in a panel discussion with her granddaughter Kimberly Lacks and her great-granddaughter Veronica Spencer at Metropolitan Community College, Longview’s Spring Convocation on April 16th, 2015. The story of Henrietta Lacks was chronicled in the best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This African-American woman, who died in 1951, is the source of the famous HeLa cells. These cells, obtained from a biopsy of Henrietta’s cancerous cervix, are unique; they are immortal ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 14, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Bioethics Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs