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Japanese Foundation Joins the Public Health Grand Challenge Bandwagon
A Japanese foundation will try to discover innovative approaches to neglected infectious diseases with a Grand Challenge.
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- Asia Pacific
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New Source of Cells for Modeling Malaria
In 2008, the World Health Organization announced a global effort to eradicate malaria, which kills about 800,000 people every year. As part of that goal, scientists are trying to develop new drugs that target the malaria parasite during the stage when it infects the human liver, which is crucial because some strains of malaria can lie dormant in the liver for several years before flaring up.
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- Education, Health Care
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A Failed Trial in Africa Raises Questions About How to Test H.I.V. Drugs
The surprising failure of a large clinical trial of H.I.V.-prevention methods in Africa — and the elaborate deceptions employed by the women in it — have opened an ethical debate about how to run such studies in poor countries and have already changed the design of some that are now underway.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Artificially Intelligent Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ Could Boost Search for New Drugs
Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria.
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Could a $34 Smartphone Device Improve HIV Diagnosis in Africa?
A $34 device that plugs into the audio jack of a smartphone was nearly as effective as far more costly diagnostic blood testing equipment in identifying antibodies for HIV and syphilis in a pilot study in Africa, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Experts Call for Innovations to Aid Africa’s Healthcare
Local technologies and innovations can transform healthcare delivery in Africa, health experts and biomedical researchers have told a conference.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Only 40% of Ebola Donations Have Reached the Affected Countries
The latest study shows the gap between what the world pledged to give, and what the affected countries really got.
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Press Release: Study Shows the Top Ten Global Health Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
Ten years after the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness reported on the need for better coordination in the global fight against disease, global pharmaceutical supply chains remain fragmented and lack coordination, facing at least 10 fundamental challenges, according to a newly published paper by professors at NYU Wagner and MIT-Zaragoza.
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