PLoS NTD

Check out the “featured expert commentary” on this link: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action Or rather after this week, it is here: http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000160 

ONE.org request

From an email from the one.org campaign:
On the Record Petition

As a member of ONE, I write to ask you to go on the record on where you stand on fighting extreme poverty and global disease that affect the one billion people around the world.
Alleviating suffering and tackling the root causes of global poverty will be [...]

1.5 million people

Coptic Mission HIV Clinic, Nairobi.
This morning the doctor saw a 34 year old woman at the HIV clinic. In the waiting room, there were already roughly 40 people waiting to be seen at 8:30 am. For patients who fit the algorithm they get ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) at no cost. Of course many of them also have TB [...]

Trachoma all around

Nairobi, Kenya.   
In the lounge at my Nairobi hotel  I talked with someone from England who comes to work here, clearly in the business world, about trachoma. Trachoma, classified often as an NTD-Neglected Tropical Disease, is caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, an intracellular bacteria whose different serotypes have brought us not only Trachoma (the leading cause of preventible blindness in [...]