AJWS Asks International Community to Demand Reinstatement of International Aid Groups Into Sudan
NEW YORK, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ruth W. Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS) has issued a statement today calling on the international community to actively push for the re-instatement of international aid organizations into Darfur so workers can continue prov...China Sky One Medical, Inc. Exports Sumei Slim Patch to South Korea and Sudan
HARBIN, China, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: CSKI ), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company producing over-the-counter drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that its...Lutheran, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishops Urge Prayers for Peace in Sudan
CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- In a June 5 joint statement, the presiding bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Episcopal Church urged U.S. citizens to pray for peace in Sudan, and they called for "strong action" from the international community to restore stabi...Jolie-Pitt Donate $100,000 for Sudan Hospital
Hollywood's hottest couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated $100,000 of their money to help// construct the first modern medical facility in Duk County, Sudan. They made the donation to the Duk Lost Boys Clinic through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, reports www.hollywood.tv. The clinic will o...AIDS Cases In Sudan Increasing
People in south Sudan are at a higher risk of developing HIV/AIDS, Sudanese Minister of Labor, Public Service and Manpower, Alison Manani Magaya has warned. Khartoum Monitor// reports that Magaya issued the warning at a graduation ceremony for an HIV/AIDS training program. Magaya said that th...Bird Flu Spreads To Sudan & China Reports Of Another Case
Magdi Salih, the head of the epidemics department, announced that on Tuesday tests carried out by Sudanese authorities on a man and chickens had proved positive for bird flu, but the announcement did not state if the virus was the deadly H5N1 strain. // The infected chickens were found at two...WHO: Lives At Risk In Sudan As Diseases Soar, Call for Funding
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for more funds to combat the major outbreaks of cholera and meningitis, which has put the lives of millions of people at risk in Sudan//. If appropriate health control measures are not instituted at the earliest, the incidence and prevalence o...Meningococcal Disease in Sudan
The Ministry of Health of the Government of Southern Sudan reported 1129 suspected cases of meningococcal disease including 96 deaths in 8 out of 10 states of Southern// Sudan. In a one week period from 4 to 11 February, a total of 79 suspected cases including 8 deaths were reported. However,...Bird flu Alert in Kenya after Outbreak in Southern Sudan
With the recent outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in southern Sudan Kenyan authorities have issued an alert//. Nicholas Muraguri, the ministry of health's head of promotive services said teams of health workers and veterinarians have been subsequently carrying out tests on people and p...Bird flu threat in South Sudan
According to the Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the first case of bird flu has been reported in a poultry farm in the capital city of Juba on Tuesday//. The fatal virus was confirmed on Sept.6 and was affecting local fowl, said the chairman of the National Task Force on Bird Flu Sam Okware. H...Research on New Treatment for Neglected Disease Published in The New England Journal of Medicine
...y afflicts the rural resource-poor populations in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, sudan and Brazil, where affordable new therapies are needed. The print issue of...g annually, 90% are found in just five countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, sudan and Brazil. South Asia carries 70% of all estimated new VL cases per year w...High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war
Surveys conducted in southern Sudan, after conflict there ended in 2004, found much higher levels of blindness than anticipated. The results, published in PLoS Medicine, have major implications for the provision of health services in the region. Sudan is the largest country in Africa and one of t...Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan
Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society confirm the existence of more than 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, where wildlife was thought to have vanished as a result of decades-long conflict. Despite the war, some species ...Professor to measure environmental impact of war
...nts, reconstruction plans and threats to fauna. The DRC has experienced many conflicts over who controls the mining exploration, while the wars in sudan and Rwanda have also had an impact on the country. The fighting in the great lake region, which hosts 60 percent of the continent's biodiversity, thre...Ebola virus disarmed by excising a single gene
...21, 2008) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This is a great system." The Ebola virus first emerged in 1976 with outbreaks in sudan and Zaire. There are several strains of the virus, which causes hemorrhagic fever and during outbreaks kills anywhere from 50-90 percent of its human ...UCR researchers awarded nearly $1.7M to develop improved cowpea varieties
...ng cowpea varieties in Senegal (3 varieties: Mouride in 1992, Melakh in 1995, and Yacine in 2004), Ghana (Marfo-Tuya and Aapagbaala, both in 2004) and sudan (Ein-el-Ghazal in 2003). These varieties have combinations of heat and drought tolerance and improved pest resistance that enhance farmer productivit...Potential vaccine developed for deadly leishmaniasis disease
...ted female sand flies, visceral leishmaniasis infects about 500,000 people annually, with the majority of cases occurring in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, sudan and Brazil. Despite a major research thrust by the World Health Organization (WHO), no effective vaccine exists for the visceral, or internal, form ...Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month
...decades, because of post-colonial turmoil, the catastrophic illness has come back to ravage parts of Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the sudan and other countries. In some regions, the tsetse fly-borne infection rivals or exceeds the toll AIDS takes. Trypanosomiasis is passed from human to ...New Vaccine To Be Used For First Time In Polio Outbreak Response
...of May. Yemen had already conducted a mass campaign on 11-14 April, as the country was considered to be at high-risk of polio re-infection from nearby sudan where an outbreak of polio continues. Experience in polio eradication demonstrates that outbreaks can be quickly contained with high quality immuni...Malaria: New Treatment is Upcoming
...ers in Pomezia (Rome, Italy), and subsidiaries in France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UK and the USA, as well as in Spain and sudan where the Group operates two production facilities. It has over 2500 employees and an extensive network of licensees worldwide. sigma-tau was f...