Diseases without borders Linda-Gail Bekker, who heads up the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation and was also the chief researcher for the lenacapavir study conducted among young women, says even with some ...

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

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 ...

Every commitment to fully fund the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s Extended ... The world is on the verge of finally eliminating this deadly disease, but reaching the finish line will ...

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.” ...

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 ...

U.S. Actions May Set Polio Eradication Back, WHO Says By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The eradication of polio as a global health ... with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 ...