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A tragic blow for ‘Global Britain’ and the world’s most vulnerable people
Neglected Tropical Diseases like blinding trachoma, intestinal worms, and elephantiasis affect 1.7 billion people around the world | Copyright: Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases / Marcus Perkins. Uniting to Combat NTDs
One billion young people are affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases. Yet the UK Government has withdrawn funding from programmes that support these communities. What happened to the idea of ‘Global Britain’?
The UK Government has unilaterally withdrawn over £150M to programmes that protect the most vulnerable children and adults from debilitating, disabling, and killing diseases called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and to research and development in NTDs.
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Citizen reporter Curing malaria means also having to stop the transmission cycle, which the new potent chemical compounds will be able to do. Residents in Burkina Faso have struggled to contain malaria. Picture for illustration: iStock
The groundbreaking discovery was published in the
Nature Communications journal on Monday.
It involved identifying compounds able to kill several stages of the deadly human malaria parasite,
Plasmodium falciparum, which does occur in South Africa, explained UP’s Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control research chair, Professor Lyn-Marie Birkholtz.
The malaria-causing parasite is able to take on multiple forms. Some cause disease, and others allow the parasite to be transmitted back into mosquitos, to continue the deadly life cycle.