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Gender equality and women’s empowerment in the world of work in fragile, conflict and disaster settings

International Labour Organization (2022) CC

Conflicts and disasters, including pandemics, affect women and men in all their diversity differently, and women and girls often suffer the most. Crisis-related hardships combine and compound pre-existing disadvantages, for example, they often cause women’s working conditions to worsen while incre... more

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WHO guideline on control and elimination of human schistosomiasis

World Health Organization WHO (2022) CC

Goal and objectives of the guideline The goal of this guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations to countries in their efforts to accomplish schistosomiasis morbidity control and elimination as a public health problem, and to move towards interruption of transmission. The recommendatio... more

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Una Nueva Esperanza Para Pacientes Con Leishmaniasis

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi (2022) CC

La leishmaniasis es una enfermedad tropical desatendida sensible al clima, trasmitida por la picadura de insectos flebótomos y se calcula que amenaza a mil millones de personas en todo el mundo. Esta enfermedad altamente compleja se presenta de varias formas clínicas, causadas por 20 especies ... more

An Update on the Knowledge of Parasite–Vector Interactions of Chagas Disease

Schaub, G. Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine (2022) CC

This review focusses on the interactions between the etiologic agent of Chagas disease, Trypanosoma cruzi, and its triatomine vector. The flagellate mainly colonizes the intestinal tract of the insect. The effect of triatomines on trypanosomes is indicated by susceptibility and refractoriness phenom... more

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Impacts of the Russia-Ukraine War on Global Food Security: Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems?

Ben Hassen, T.; El Bilali, H. (2022) CC

As a conflict between two major agricultural powers, the Russia–Ukraine war has various negative socioeconomic impacts that are now being felt internationally and might worsen, notably, for global food security. If the war deepens, the food crisis will worsen, posing a challenge to many countries,... more

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Community-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: A Systematic Review

Polidano, K., Wenning, B., Ruiz-Cadavid, A. et al. Social Sciences (2022) CC

We reviewed the evidence on community-based interventions for the prevention and control of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). Community initiatives tailored towards awareness and mobilisation are regarded as a priority area in the Neglected Tropical Disease Roadmap 2021–2030 by the World Health Organi... more

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Leishmaniasis Key Facts

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) World Health Organization (WHO) (2022) C_WHO

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease with a wide variety of parasite species, reservoirs, and vectors involved in transmission. It is caused by different species of the protozoa Leishmania and is transmitted to animals and humans through a bite of insects in the Psychodidae family. Its presence i... more

The Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Its Implications for the Global Food Supply Chains

Jagtap, S.; Trollman, H.; Trollman, F.; Garcia-Garcia, G. et al. (2022) CC

Food is one of the most traded goods, and the conflict in Ukraine, one of the European breadbaskets, has triggered a significant additional disruption in the global food supply chains after the COVID-19 impact. The disruption to food output, supply chains, availability, and affordability could have ... more

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Leishmaniasis Treatment Market Size, Share, Industry Growth, Trend, Business Opportunities, Challenges, Drivers and Restraint Research Report by 2028

Reports and Data BioSpace (2022) C1

High prevalence of target diseases in rural and developing nations, increased prevalence of malnutrition across the globe, lack of hygiene and poor sanitation facilities, Migratory patterns of population, introduction of new chemical entity in the field of therapeutics, favorable government regulati... more

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Scarbies: Diagnosis and Treatment

American Academy of Dermatology Association (2022) CC

A dermatologist can often diagnose scabies by visually examining a patient’s skin from head to toe. To make sure that a patient has scabies, a dermatologist may remove some skin. This is painless. Your dermatologist will put the skin on a glass slide and look at the slide under a microscope. If y... more

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Global mortality of snakebite envenoming between 1990 and 2019

Nature Communications (2022) CC

Snakebite envenoming affects millions of people worldwide annually and is a significant source of mortality. Preventing and treating the problem is complex and requires collaboration among the fields of public health, medicine, ecology, and laboratory science. After being removed from the category A... more