African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people ...

African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite and spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Infections begin with mild to moderate symptoms like fever and ...

In a determined effort to alleviate the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the continent, African health experts convened in the Togolese capital, Lomé, issuing a strong call for ...

It is also used to diagnose malaria and neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, and human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. Eiken developed these tests with FIND ...

Over the past decade, the pharmaceutical industry has been steadily increasing its investment in lifestyle drugs (see next page). Although this effort is geared more toward capturing revenue from ...