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		<title>&#8220;Human Time Bomb for Mosquitoes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://endtheneglect.org/2011/07/human-time-bomb-for-mosquitoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Padmanabhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Echoing several articles published last week, Donald McNeil Jr. of the New York Times also shed light on the recent study conducted in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene by scientists from Senegal and Colorado State University. As mentioned previously, the study demonstrated that ivermectin, a drug used to treat onchocerciasis, can also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI) Website Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce the launch of a new website for the Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI), a consortium of organizations working to lay the groundwork for dengue vaccine introduction in endemic areas.]]></description>
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		<title>WHO research programme on tropical diseases wins Gates Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Padmanabhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based at WHO headquarters in Geneva and co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and WHO, has won the 2011 Gates Award for Global Health. TDR which has been operating since 1975, has supported and advocated for research and development to address infectious diseases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deworming as a public health intervention:  can it have lasting effects?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 16, 2011, the Center for Global Development hosted an event for Michael Kremer and Sarah Baird to present data on their long-term follow-up research study called &#8220;Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Deworming in Kenya.” Other authors on the paper include Joan Hamory Hicks and Edward Miguel). This paper concludes that deworming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BCM, Texas Children’s announce recruitment of Dr. Peter Hotez and team in major advance to develop vaccines for world’s poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We will be making an unprecedented assault on the diseases of poverty in the world.” &#8212; Dr. Peter Hotez Agreement will establish national tropical medicine school at Baylor College of Medicine, move Sabin Vaccine Institute’s vaccine development program to Texas Children’s Hospital HOUSTON – (June 8, 2011) – Leaders of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, Baylor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Size of Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anjana Padmanabhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Came across this awesome infographic via GOOD. Click on the image to view it larger. In addition to the well known social issues of illiteracy and innumeracy, there also should be such a concept as &#8220;immappacy,&#8221; meaning insufficient geographical knowledge. A survey of random American schoolkids let them guess the population and land area of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Links Schistosomiasis with HIV</title>
		<link>http://endtheneglect.org/2011/05/new-study-links-schistosomiasis-with-hiv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 15:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda Diep</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study asserts that a type of schistosomiasis may predispose women to contracting HIV. Researchers Downs, Mguta, Kaatano et al (2011) conducted a study within the villages of the Lake Victoria region of Tanzania, and found that female urogenital schistosomiasis (FUS) is associated with HIV infection.]]></description>
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