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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. Schistosomiasis is a water-borne parasitic disease caused by infection with Schistosoma blood flukes ...

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 diseases and cancer. Lassa fever, according to the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevent...