Neglected Tropical Diseases in the News

Below are some articles that have appeared in the news this past month regarding NTDs.

March 6, 2013
Tanzania: Health Experts Salute Tropical Diseases Control Programme

March 10, 2013
Tanzania: Interventions to Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases Take Shape

March 14, 2013
Cancer Drugs May Cure Tapeworm Diseases
Using Cancer Treatment For Diseases Caused By Tapeworms

March 21, 2013
Health: Consultative meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases NTDs

March 25, 2013
Tokyo Institute of Technology and Astellas Use Supercomputer to Fight Tropical Diseases

March 27, 2013
Inaugural infectious disease conference brings global health leaders to St. Louis
Health: WHO nudges countries on neglected tropical diseases

March 28, 2013
Twin Pillars of Poverty in Black America: NTDs and Incarceration

April 1, 2012
Texas Tech Biologist Earns $1.6 Million NIH Grant to Find Weakness in Parasitic Leishmania

Co-infection of tuberculosis and parasitic diseases in humans: a systematic review.

Li XX, Zhou XN.

Parasit Vectors. 2013 Mar 22;6:79. doi: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-79. Review.

PMID: 23522098 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article

Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths, Schistosoma mansoni, and haematocrit values among schoolchildren in Ethiopia.

Abera B, Alem G, Yimer M, Herrador Z.

J Infect Dev Ctries. 2013 Mar 14;7(3):253-60. doi: 10.3855/jidc.2539.

PMID: 23493004 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free Article

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