The United Kingdom should do more to help train and support health workers in developing countries in an effort to strengthen their health care infrastructures, Lord Nigel Crisp, former chief of the U.K. National Health Service, said in a report released on Tuesday, BBC News reports.
Leading players in the mobile phone industry and the U.S. Government have joined forces to fight HIV/AIDS and other health challenges in 10 African countries.
Funding from Canada, Italy, Norway and the UK may save millions of poor children and pave the way for rapid introduction of future vaccines, including AIDS, malaria and TB.
Michel Kazatchkine, France’s ambassador for HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, was selected to lead a multi-billion-dollar fund the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Group of Seven industrialized nations plans to sign an agreement to provide $1.5 billion to develop vaccines for diseases — including HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria — that largely affect developing countries.
CNRS laboratory IN2P3 in an international effort analyzed close to 80,000 medicines for Malaria allowing the calculation of the probability of a particular molecule affecting the proliferation of the parasite.
The World Bank plans to provide Thailand with a $750,000, three-year grant aimed at providing HIV-positive people with increased access to antiretroviral drugs, Viroj Tangcharoensathien, program director for international health policy at the country’s Ministry of Public Health, said recently, Thailand’s Nation reports.
President Bush on monday released his $2.8 trillion fiscal year 2008 budget proposal, which would allocate $5.4 billion for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Malaria kills more than one million people each year, most of them young children living in Africa. Now physicists in the UK have shared their computers with biologists from countries including France and Korea in an effort to combat the disease.
Parasite-carrying bloodsucking leeches may be delivering a one-two punch to newts, according to biologists, who say the discovery may provide clues to disease outbreaks in amphibians.