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LEPTOSPIROSIS Fact Sheet for Clinicians

Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2018) CC

• Leptospirosis is a disease that is caused by spirochete bacteria in the genus Leptospira. There are 10 pathogenic species, and more than 250 pathogenic serovars. • While leptospirosis occurs worldwide, it is more common in tropical or sub-tropical climates.

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Chromoblastomycosis: a neglected tropical disease

Scientific Electronic Library Online SciELO (2015) CC

Chromoblastomycosis (CMB) is a chronic fungal infection of the skin and the subcutaneous tissue caused by a transcutaneous traumatic inoculation of a specific group of dematiaceous fungi occurring mainly in tropical and subtropical zones worldwide. If not diagnosed at early stages, patients with CBM... more

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Film - People, Partnerships, and a Pill: 20 Years of ITI

Stanley, R. Productions International Trachoma Initiative; The Taskforce for Global Health (2018) CC

In 2018, we are celebrating 20 years of progress in eliminating trachoma, the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. Set up in 1998 by Pfizer Inc. and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) supports Ministries of Health in over 30 countries around ... more

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Guide for the Medical, Veterinary and allied Professions

Bishop, G.; Durrheim, D.; Kloeck, P. et al. Department: Agriculture, Foresty and Fisheries - Republic of South Africa (2010) CC

Rabies is a disease of animals but too often the outcome is gauged in terms of human suffering and death. Despite this, in areas of the world where rabies is endemic there is often a lack of communication between veterinary and medical professionals, to the extent that the disease continues to thri... more

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Infection Prevention: A reference booklet forhealth care providers

EngenderHealth (2011) C2

Infectious diseases are constantly in transition. New diseases develop, known dis-eases become widespread or reemerge, and occasionally a disease is eradicated.Infectious diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis, and cholera are significant causes ofillness and death in many parts of the world. Health car... more

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BSAC Vanguard Series: The future of antibiotic stewardship—managing access and excess

Goff, D. (2021) C2

J Antimicrob Chemother https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkab423 Antibiotic stewardship is absolutely crucial in the fight to control antimicrobial resistance. Everyone has a part to play. Grassroots action is essential; it is no good sitting back and waiting for world leaders to solve this problem. In... more

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Geographical Distribution of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Pathogenesis

Flaih, M. (2021) CC

Leishmaniasis is still considered to be a global health problem, which spreads in most countries in the world. Leishmania is an intracellular obligate protistan parasite that causes different clinical symptoms in infected humans and other animals. There are clinically different types of the disease ... more

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Praziquantel for the treatment of schistosomiasis during human pregnancy

Friedman, J.F. et al. (2018) CC

In 2014, an estimated 40 million women of reproductive age were infected with Schistosoma haematobium, S. japonicum and/or S. mansoni. In both 2003 and 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that all schistosome-infected pregnant and breastfeeding women be offered treatment, with praz... more

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Integration of schistosomiasis control activities within the primary health care system: a critical review

Bizimana, P. et al. (2019) CC

Schistosomiasis is a chronic disease linked to poverty and is widely endemic, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. For decades, the World Health Organization has called for a larger role of the primary health care system in schistosomiasis control, and its integration within the routine activities of... more

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Education and Community Engagement is integral to our mass Vaccination Projects

Mission Rabies (2023) CC

Children are at high risk of dog bites and contracting rabies. Forty percent of reported rabies cases worldwide are children under the age of fifteen. In our project areas, the proportion of children dying is often even higher. Rabies most often persists in poor communities and rural regions of deve... more

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What is scabies?

Goverment of Western Australia Department of Health (2023) CC

Human scabies is caused by an infestation of the skin by the human itch mite (Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis). The microscopic scabies mite burrows into the upper layer of the skin where it lives and lays its eggs. Scabies is found worldwide and affects people of all races and social classes. Scabi... more

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What is Scabies? Fact sheet

Research Institute for Tropical Medicine Department of Health (2018) CC

Scabies is an itchy skin condition caused by a tiny burrowing mite. This eight-legged bug is so small which makes it hard to see on the skin. Approximately 300 million cases of scabies are reported worldwide each year.

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Yaws: Mass Treatment with Single-Dose Azithromycin for Yaws

Mitjá, O. et al The New England Journal of Medicine (2015) CC

Yaws, an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, is endemic in many parts of the world. A community-wide treatment program in Papua New Guinea, in which a single dose of azithromycin was administered, showed substantial disease control. Watch the new Quick Take animation... more

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Easy Read: Gender Disability Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Checklist during Covid-19

United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (2023) CC

Making sure that people with disabilities get the right health care to do with their bodies, sex, relationships and having children during COVID-19 About this information This information is about health care for people with disabilities to do with their bodies, sex, relationships and having c... more

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Epidemiological and clinical aspects of urogenital schistosomiasis in women, in Burkina Faso, West Africa

Zida, A.; Briegel, J.; Kabré, I. et al. BioMed Central (2016) CC

Human schistosomiasis, a parasitic and often chronic illness, is one of the major neglected tropical diseases worldwide. It is estimated that 240 million people suffer from schistosomiasis, with more than 200000 fatalities recorded each year. Schistosomiasis is caused by an infection of the blood fl... more

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Parasites-Schishosomiasis

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2018) CC

Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is a disease caused by parasitic worms. Although the worms that cause schistosomiasis are not found in the United States, people are infected worldwide. In terms of impact this disease is second only to malaria as the most devastating parasitic disease. Sc... more

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Russia's war on Ukraine: Impact on food security and EU response

Anna Caprile European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2022) C2

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a country known as the 'breadbasket of Europe', is raising fears of a global food crisis, further exacerbating existing food security challenges worldwide. Much depends on the response of the international community, including the EU, to a number of rapidly... more

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Ethiopia - Multi-Sectorial Cholera Elimination Plan 2022 - 2028

Government of Ethiopia (2023) CC

Cholera which disproportionally impacts poor countries and the most vulnerable continues to affect at least 47 countries across the globe, resulting in an estimated 1.3 – 4 million cases, and 21,000 - 143,000 deaths per year worldwide. In Ethiopia, despite major improvements seen in the increasing... more

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Impact of human schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa

Adenowo, A.; Oyinloye, B.; Ogunyinka, B. et al. (2015) CC

Human schistosomiasis otherwise called bilharzia, is a fresh- water snail transmitted intravascular debilitating disease resulting from infection by the parasitic dimorphic Schistosoma trematode worms, which lives in the bloodstream of humans. The World Health Organization (WHO) regards the disease ... more