Kenya: Kilifi Launches Battle Against the Tsetse Fly
[The Star]The government yesterday launched a campaign to eradicate the tsetse fly. The bloodsucking fly bites humans and livestock, transmitting sleeping sickness and nagana. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 15, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Live Q&A: funding drug development for diseases of poverty
It costs $5bn to develop a new drug, but drug resistance in developing countries means they are badly needed. Where will the money come from? Join our chat, Thursday 27 MarchIt takes a long time and many different processes to produce a drug. After being discovered it needs to be clinically tested, approved by regulatory agencies as being both effective and safe and then distributed to wherever it is needed.Predictably, most new drugs that are tested do not get through to the distribution stage. According to an article in Forbes in 2013, 95% of experimental drugs fail and subsequently the cost of developing a new drug has ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 24, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Anna Scott Tags: Global development professionals network Malaria and infectious diseases Partnership Participation Global health Research Drug resistance Drugs Pharmaceuticals industry Guardian Professional Editorial Source Type: news
University of Edinburgh and Selcia partner to develop new drugs for sleeping sickness
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have collaborated with international life sciences contract research organisation Selcia to launch a £2.5m project to develop new drugs for the treatment of sleeping sickness, which threatens almost 70 mill… (Source: Pharmaceutical Technology)
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - February 4, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Kenya: Millions of Kenyans At Risk of Sleeping Sickness
[The Star]Millions of Kenyans are at risk of getting sleeping sickness in more than 38 counties due tsetse flies. Surveillance in the remaining regions will be conducted by the government. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: Sleeping Sickness Drops
[ANGOP]A significant drop in the rate of trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, has been recorded since 1997, when 8,725 cases a year were diagnosed, now standing at 100 cases over the last few years. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 15, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Sex Matters for Sleeping Sickness Microbes
[VOA]Scientists are keeping a close eye on the mating habits of microscopic organisms, including those that cause African sleeping sickness. They say what happens between two parasites can have major consequences for humans (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 10, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sex matters for microbes
Caught in the act! Researchers from the University of Bristol have observed mating for the first time in the microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness. This tropical disease is caused by trypanosomes, single-celled parasites that are found in the blood of those afflicted. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - January 3, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: news_text Tags: Press releases Source Type: news
Sex matters for microbes
(University of Bristol) Researchers from the University of Bristol have observed mating for the first time in the microbes responsible for African sleeping sickness. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 3, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
New discovery could help combat the spread of sleeping sickness
Silencing signals sent by sleeping sickness parasite could aid sleeping sickness fightInsights into how the parasites that cause the disease are able to communicate with one another could help limit the spread of the infection.The findings suggest that new drugs could be designed to disrupt the flow of messages sent between these infectious microorganisms.Sleeping sickness - so named because it disrupts sleep patterns - is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, and more than 69 million people in Africa are at risk of infection. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - December 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Silencing signals sent by parasite could aid sleeping sickness fight
(University of Edinburgh) Insights into how the parasites that cause sleeping sickness are able to communicate with one another could help limit the spread of the infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 15, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
According to the WHO, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect over 1 billion people worldwide, and are devastating to patients in the developing world. What is being done to get treatments to these patients and to speed development of new treatments?
conversationsneglected tropical diseasestropical diseasesnew medicinesInnovationOpinion46864687468846894690469246914693Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) impact more than a billion people in some of the poorest, most remote parts of the world, blinding, disabling, disfiguring and sickening those infected. They have a negative impact on life expectancy, productivity and childhood education -- all of which create a cycle of poverty and stigma for affected communities.
Today, because of renewed and new commitments, millions impacted by NTDs are being treated, several NTDs are being controlled effectively, and some even elimin...
Source: PHRMA - December 10, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Stephen Source Type: news
Angola: Campaign Against Sleeping Sickness in Uige
[ANGOP]The mega campaign of active survey of the sleeping sickness which will involve 10 mobile teams comprising 70 technicians, is leaving for northern Uige province, with the launch set to take place on December 11. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 6, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Does Pharma Only Develop Drugs For Those Who Can Pay?
To achieve any reasonable ROI, companies must work on areas that will generate significant income. A drug to treat brain cancer will do that. A drug to treat sleeping sickness won?t. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - December 5, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: John LaMattina Source Type: news
Sleeping sickness: a health scourge that refuses to be put to rest
African trypanosomiasis currently puts 70 million people at risk. Though control efforts have produced good results, there can be no elimination without wider health system reformsElimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis, sleeping sickness as it's commonly known, has been on the global health agenda for well over a decade (pdf). In 2001, when unprecedented amounts of drugs were donated by the French pharmaceutical company Aventis (now Sanofi), the global health community began to think disease elimination would become a reality yet the disease remains endemic in 36 sub-Saharan African countries today, putting some 70 m...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 5, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Charles Ebikeme Tags: Global health Blogposts Guardian Professional Infectious diseases Malaria and infectious diseases Health policy Society Drugs Global development professionals network World Health Organisation Policy and advocacy Source Type: news
