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Argentina starts producing benznidazole, the main drug for Chagas Disease treatment
This development is carried out by a private-public consortium made up of the national laboratories Maprimed and ELEA, Mundo Sano Foundation and the Ministry of Health.
Mundo Sano, the only Latin American organization taking part in an international coalition for the control and elimination of neglected diseases
The partnership articulates efforts from the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other nonprofit organizations, governments and leading pharmaceutical companies.
Over 400 specialists reflected on the barriers to access to treatment of neglected diseases
Remarkable speakers from Ibero-American countries took part in the meeting, as well as Health Minister Dr. Juan Manzur. The core topics of the meeting were how to improve detection and treatment of diseases like Chagas, dengue, leishmaniasis or parasitoses, and the existing barriers to reach the population at risk, which is above 127 million people in the American Continent.
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- Healthcare specialists attended a dengue outbreak drill.
- The WHO publishes new guidelines on malaria related to the therapies and acquisition of medicines
- PECET announces the beginning of clinical trials in investigational vaccines against dengue.