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...genome sequencing of Plasmodium falciparum and the initial lessons that scientists have learned about the parasite are outlined in two new journal articles by Dyann F. Wirth, director of the Harvard Malaria Initiative and professor of immunology and infectious diseases at HSPH...
Scientists have recently mapped the genome of the parasite that causes malaria, and a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) is hoping this information will lead to more effective forms of treatment...
...global health, for example, the U.S. will contribute only $200 million next year to the U.N. Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, when it should be contributing $2.5 to $3 billion annually...
...darkest Hemingway country--the ghost of Francis Macomber haunts every page--but Caputo is blessedly free of Papa's ego. He's not afraid to describe an unsuccessful spear-throwing lesson with a Masai warrior or the distinctly un-Hemingwayesque experience of passing out from taking too much malaria medicine. He also tells us a few things Papa never did--like how, exactly, a lion eats a human being (belly first, then buttocks and thighs...
Economic-development and family-planning programs have helped slow the tide of people, but in some places, population growth is moderating for all the wrong reasons. In the poorest parts of the world, most notably Africa, infectious diseases such as AIDS, malaria, cholera and tuberculosis are having a Malthusian effect. Rural-land degradation is pushing people into cities, where crowded, polluted living conditions create the perfect breeding grounds for sickness. Worldwide, at least 68 million are expected to die of AIDS by 2020, including 55 million in sub-Saharan Africa. While any factor that eases population pressures may help...