Kala-azar is also known as visceral leishmaniasis. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) the disease is ...

The Wajir County government has launched an emergency response plan to contain a deadly outbreak of Kala-azar, a parasitic ...

A deadly Kala-azar outbreak in Wajir has claimed 18 lives and infected over 500 people in three months. Health officials have ...

Novartis (NVS) announced that oral Fabhalta, iptacopan, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the ...

Novartis’s (NVS) parasite-selective proteasome inhibitor with potent activity against kinetoplastid parasites was granted FDA orphan ...

India is progressing towards eliminating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) through political support, community involvement, ...

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Interleukin-27 (IL-27) is a member of the IL-12 family. The gene encoding IL-27 is located at chromosome 16p11. IL-27 is considered as a heterodimeric cytokine, which consists of Epstein–Barr virus ...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) constructed a faecal sludge treatment site in Aboutengue camp, Chad, which hosts approximately 45,000 Sudanese refugees, to process waste from ...

The superior lesion is the newest, and is beginning to ulcerate. She has no other medical problems. Cutaneous leishmaniasis is divided into two categories—Old World and New World—based on the ...

The fund also purchased over 10 million diagnostic tests including rapid tests for the swift diagnosis of diseases such as HIV, malaria and leishmaniasis, among others, as well as treatment for a ...

A new generation’s fight for water, power and resistance in Pakistan, and why Sindh’s survival depends on resisting megaprojects. On a crisp Karachi morning, I meet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr; he ...