UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy ...

A new drug called nitisinone, which makes human blood poisonous to mosquitoes, could be a vital new tool to fight malaria.

Polio survivor and campaigner Ramesh Ferris talks about his endeavours to eradicate polio, specifically within Pakistan and ...

Paynesville - In a unified display of solidarity, Liberia has strengthened its resolve to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) as government officials, healthcare practitioners, and civil society ...

Data sources: CDC, Global Polio Eradication Initiative ... Neglected Tropical Diseases, Global Health Workforce, Health Reserve Fund. Associated Program Area: HL.5 Other Public Health Threats ...

It is by far the world's leading killer infectious disease. Not only do malaria and HIV receive far more resources from the Global Fund than tuberculosis; they also get much more global publicity ...

To achieve the goal of a global effort for FMD control and eradication, the next 5 years are critical. Large parts of the world such as South America are at the brink of eradicating FMD with ...

As the world marks the World Tuberculosis Day, experts at the St George’s University, SGU, School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, have emphasised the issue of prevention to eradicate the ...

In 1986, Carter took charge of the global Guinea Worm Eradication Program, in line with the Carter Center’s goal of “eradication, elimination and control of neglected tropical diseases.” ...

This book fails to capture this essential aspect of global disease eradication—basic shoe-leather epidemiology—as relevant for polio eradication today as it was for the eradication of smallpox ...

Only when these critical components are available will the global eradication of foot-and-mouth disease virus be possible.