Genetically modify mosquitoes so they can't spread diseases such as malaria and dengue virus.
Malnutrition was widespread, and so were diseases associated with poverty: cholera, dysentery, typhoid and parasitic infections such as malaria.
People are sleeping outside with no food and no sanitation, and Costello fears the onslaught of diseases such as malaria, dysentery and cholera.
In Laos, one in 11 children die before the age of five, the majority from preventable and treatable conditions such as malaria, pneumonia and measles.
Infectious diseases still take a grave toll in poor countries, especially childhood killers such as malaria, pneumonia and diarrheal diseases that are rarely a threat in rich countries.
All over the world women are adapting to these changes, showing incredible resilience in the face of crop failures, water shortages and increases in environment-related diseases such as malaria.
The fight against deadly diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and the ongoing fight against HIV will increasingly be helped by the greater use of mobile connectivity, according to the report.
First, in the face of a disease such as malaria, which kills up to 2.7m people a year, speed is itself a virtue, for which some sacrifice in quality may be worthwhile.
In diseases for which there is no private vaccine market, such as pandemic influenza, or for which cases are concentrated in poor countries, such as malaria and tuberculosis, governments and public-private partnerships have stepped in to subsidize development.
Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and sleeping sickness kill millions each year.
The report also cited indirect causes such as anemia, malaria and heart disease.
While diseases such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis have laudably gained the attention of the global health community, NCDs have been routinely ignored.
However, health activists and aid groups counter that Indian generics are a lifesaver for patients in poor countries who cannot afford Western prices to treat diseases such as cancer, malaria and HIV.
Bono, a previous TED Prize winner, gave a talk in the opening session on the dramatic progress that's been made in fighting diseases such as AIDS and malaria and in curbing global poverty.
As a group, PDPs like OneWorld Health, Medicines for Malaria Venture, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, and the Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics target diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, Chagas, HIV and AIDS, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a group of parasitic infections caused by worms.
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Many travellers have been deterred from taking vaccinations because of media scares about drugs such as the anti-malaria treatment Larium.
This care has proved to be efficient for treating diseases such as HIV and AIDS, malaria and other parasitic conditions, and chronic and lifestyle diseases.
The G8 leaders will also look to providing extra help in alleviating the debt of the world's poorest countries, and to contributing towards the U.N. drive against infectious diseases such as AIDS, TB and malaria.
Such clear-cut results are an improvement on the more subjective read-outs from microscopy, and are welcomed not just by health workers in poor countries, but also by the American army, which has put Optimal through its clinical paces in such malaria-ridden places as Peru and Thailand.
It estimates that some 12, 000 children in the continent die daily from illnesses and conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhea, measles, malaria and malnutrition.
AIDS. But it also accounts for more than half of donor spending on malaria (on such things as insecticide-treated bed nets) and two-thirds of that on tuberculosis.
This may not sound onerous, but in places such as Mozambique, where the annual budget for fighting malaria is less than 30 cents a person, any additional bureaucracy could prove to be a big drain on resources.
Mr. Patch would surely agree that a major effort to preventing war and human suffering must be to support continued medical research, especially to ameliorate emerging epidemics such as worldwide "Lyme Disease", drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis, and parasitism.
He said the technique had particular potential in areas of limited plant growth, such as desert and savannah regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is becoming a bigger threat.
The technology, however, could be applied to other vaccines, such as those against influenza virus, or vaccines under development for TB and malaria or for existing vaccines administered in childhood.
If not treated soon after onset of symptoms -- such as fever, chills, diarrhea and shortness of breath -- those infected by malaria can have neurological problems or cognitive problems, or ultimately die.
In some parts of Africa, such as the highlands of eastern Africa, the Sahel and the deserts of southern Africa, malaria is not a constant threat, but comes in sudden epidemics.
The extreme microscope will enable a number of subjective and time-consuming tasks such as counting the number of cells staining positive for a biomarker or locating cells infected with a parasite like malaria, to be replaced by highly repeatable and robust computer vision applications.
Glaxo's Stephenne hopes to sell huge quantities of malaria vaccine for a modest profit, while using its adjuvant components for more lucrative vaccines, such as one to prevent lung cancer recurrence.
In the villages, the volunteers provide preventive services such as prenatal checkups and general exams, but most of their time is spent treating a wide range of ailments like malaria, TB, pneumonia, diarrhea, animal or snake bites, and parasites.
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