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Trachoma elimination in sight after South Asia success
2024年10月16日 · SAFE strategy. The WHO’s elimination strategy – dubbed SAFE, for surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental change – includes safe waste disposal and improved access to clean water and basic sanitation, as well as antibiotics to treat the infection.. Roderico H. Ofrin, the WHO’s representative in India, attributes the country’s success to the implementation of this ...
‘Undetectable’ HIV patients could hold key to treatments
2024年9月26日 · [JOHANNESBURG] A rare group of HIV-positive people who maintain undetectable levels of the virus in their blood without medication could hold the key to new therapies for others living with the disease, says a leading genome expert.. Unlike the vast majority of those infected, these so-called “elite controllers” can suppress the virus without the need for antiretroviral therapy (ART ...
Polio survivors face biggest fight of their lives
2024年10月23日 · Polio survivors facing the little-known late effects of the disease are being overlooked, writes Neena Bhandari. [SYDNEY] Every year, 24 October is observed as World Polio Day, while the whole month is designated to raising awareness of the disease.
Integrating modern and traditional medicine: Facts and figures
2010年5月27日 · Box 1.Artemisinin: traditional medicine's blockbluster drug; Artemisinin, which is extracted from Artemisia annua or Chinese sweet wormwood, is the basis for the most effective malaria drugs the world has ever seen.. Western researchers first became aware of the compound in the 1980s, though it had long been used in China to treat malaria.
Chloé Farand - Sub-Saharan Africa
A freelance climate and environment reporter, Chloé has covered international climate politics and the levers and blockers of climate action for the past six years. She has reported on the UN climate conferences since 2016.
Nanotechnology for health: Facts and figures - SciDev.Net
2010年11月18日 · Can developing countries use nanotechnology to improve health? Priya Shetty looks at nanomedicine’s promise.. Nanotechnology — the science of the extremely small — holds enormous potential for healthcare, from delivering drugs more effectively, diagnosing diseases more rapidly and sensitively, and delivering vaccines via aerosols and patches.
Indian scientists extract salt from plants - scidev.net
2003年5月15日 · [NEW DELHI] An Indian research team has produced salt from a leafless shrub that grows in salty soil on the Indian coast. The researchers hope that their research will lead to a market for plant-derived salt, which contains micronutrients that are not found in standard salt that is mined or extracted from seawater.
Chile boosts funding for science and technology - scidev.net
2009年9月14日 · Five more science and technology centres have been launched in Chile, part of a funding programme to boost S&T innovation.
How China trained a new generation abroad - SciDev.Net
2003年5月8日 · China has been all too aware of the pros and cons of homegrown intellectual talent moving abroad for decades. David Zweig and Stanley Rosen investigate how the country has chosen to respond.