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News and Press Release in English on Liberia about Health and Epidemic; published on 1 Dec 2022 by WHO

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) fuel a vicious cycle of poor health and poverty — but they can be eliminated. Here’s how.

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Toward the Elimination of Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), By Alfred Kwesi Manyeh FGS is threatening the reproductive and sexual health of women and girls. As we celebrate the World Health Day with the focus on “Building a Fairer, and Healthier World”, there is the need for more concerted effort toward awareness creation, detection, treatment and prevention of FGS, together with other concomitant women’s health challenges or else FGS will remain a neglected gynaecological disease. Sc...

Punch Newspapers Sections IT is heartening that efforts are ongoing to develop a vaccine for Lassa fever. An American biotechnology company, INOVIO, which is spearheading the research, noted that the first participant in Lassa vaccine trial had been dosed in a Phase 1B clinical trial for INO-4500, its DNA vaccine candidate for Lassa fever. The clinical trial in progress in Ghana is reportedly focusing on offering precisely-designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious dise...

Deworming achieves progress towards 2030 NTD goals sub-Saharan Africa We would like to start the new year with good news - there has been great progress towards targets of eliminating soil-transmitted helminths in sub-Saharan Africa but there is still some work to be done. 8 Jan 2021 A Pokot woman swallows a dose of deworming medicine in Riongo, Kenya (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Roger S. Duncan) Soil-transmitted helminths is a group of parasitic worms that inclu...

BugBitten Schistosoma haematobium infection: what is required to achieve morbidity control and elimination? Using an individual based stochastic model and data from two different age-intensity profiles of infection prevalence and intensity, we explore the effect of mass drug treatment (MDA) on S. haematobium and examine whether we can achieve the WHO goals of morbidity control and elimination as a public health problem by using the current guidelines. 22 Dec 2020 Figure 1: Distribution of S....