Op-eds & Articles
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Chagas: Making a noise about the ‘silent disease’
Full text of Article: 14 April 2012 - The fight against Chagas – a tropical parasitic disease that affects between eight and ten million people in Latin America – has seen major advances...
Last updated 16 April 2012
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What Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases Will Really Require
Full text of Article: Performing a spinal tap under field conditions is nerve-wracking. Sticking a needle into someone's spine to extract spinal fluid is painful and risky and that's just...
Last updated 31 January 2012
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False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)
Full text of Article: “Finally, someone is talking about this.” I heard this refrain frequently at the recent International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections...
Last updated 6 January 2012
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ICASA conference: donor retreat and its consequences for patients and communities
Full text of Article: The 2011 International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) conference in Addis Ababa was an experience in contradictions. Presentations...
Last updated 5 January 2012
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MSF: Initial outcomes of combination treatment for HIV and visceral leishmaniasis co-infection
Full text of Article: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a protozoan disease transmitted by sandflies, is the second-biggest parasitic killer worldwide (after malaria). In Ethiopia, the host country...
Last updated 3 January 2012
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Stop deaths, not funding
Full text of Article: In the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, we should be dealing a knock-out blow. The Global Fund must call an emergency donor conference so countries can reverse these killer...
Last updated 21 December 2011
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Visceral leishmaniasis/HIV co-infection in East Africa
Full text of Article: Today is the last day of the 16th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a hotspot for cases of co-infection between...
Last updated 8 December 2011
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Going backwards on the fight against Aids: What to tell the patients?
Full text of Article: Soon it will be necessary to explain to patients infected with HIV, simple and multi-drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, and to the mothers who each year loose their children...
Last updated 1 December 2011
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Trade and Public Health: a Decade of Double Standards
Full text of Article: At the heart of almost every dispute about access to medicines lies this question: how do countries balance the need to protect public health against patent rights that lead...
Last updated 22 November 2011
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Paediatric tuberculosis: out of the dark
Full text of Article: Children with tuberculosis have been neglected for too long. Children tend to have paucibacillary disease and therefore are less infectious than adults, meaning they have...
Last updated 4 November 2011
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