In the 1980s and 1990s, National Animal Production Research Institute started a cross breeding programme to produce the ...

In a determined effort to alleviate the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the continent, African health experts convened in the Togolese capital, Lomé, issuing a strong call for ...

AFRICAN health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue ...

African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African ...

Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social ... Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and Trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe, the ...

Human trypanosomiasis is endemic in both Africa and the United States. With growing international population mobility, however, the infection has since been documented in 44 countries. Although ...

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, or African sleeping sickness) was selected as the initial disease focus to accelerate fundamental research being undertaken at the UoD. The founding grant was ...

Found in Sub-Saharan Africa, tsetse flies are known vectors of African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. This disease, if left untreated, is often fatal. The flies transmit the trypanosome ...

Compared with her own experiences with nicks and cuts, the baboons’ ability to heal seemed like a superpower.