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Articles

This section includes published articles on LF in newspapers and magazines.

Attack of the Worms’ Article
By: Nicholas D. Kristof - New York Times
Date: 2nd July 2007
Quiz time: So what do hundreds of millions of ordinary schoolschildren around the world possess that American kids almost never get?

Answer: Worms...(read more)

"Rapid-Impact Interventions": How a Policy of Integrated Control for Africa's Neglected Tropical Diseases Could Benefit the Poor
By: David H. Molyneux, Peter J. Hotez*, Alan Fenwick - PLoS Medicine
Date: November 2005
Over the past two decades there have been significant achievements in the control of a handful of important human tropical infections. These achievements include the substantive reductions in the prevalence and incidence of the so-called neglected diseases such as lymphatic filariasis... (read more)
$200 mln urged to fight neglected African diseases
By: Ben Hirschler - Reuters
Date: 2005/10/11
Parasitic diseases afflicting millions of African adults and children could be treated and cured for just $200 million a year, a tiny fraction of the amount earmarked to fight AIDS, medical experts said on Tuesday. (read more)
Ignored diseases 'kill 500,000'
By: BBC News World Edition
Date: 2005/10/10
Millions of people are being affected annually by tropical diseases which are being ignored, claim researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The diseases kill at least 500,000 people a year but are neglected by doctors, policymakers and public health officials. (read more)
Scaling Up, Reaching Out: Mobilizing Resources to Fight a Neglected Disease.
By: Global Healthlink, #132
Date: March-April 2005
  Mass Treatment Targets Parasitic Infection.
By: Brown, David - The Washington Post
Date: April 5, 2004.
  Tropical Disease Drive is Hailed.
By: BBC News
Date: March 16, 2004.
Towards the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis.
By: Dean, Malcolm - The Lancet
Date: May 11, 2002

 

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