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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.
Seminar on parasitosis in Orán, Salta
It was organized by the Institute of Tropical Disease Research of National University of Salta, Mundo Sano, San Vicente de Paul Hospital. the Laboratory of Tropical Diseases and the Municipality of Hipólito Irigoyen.
Mundo Sano specialists and Universidad de Buenos Aires published a piece of research on dengue carried out by the PLoS Journal
A team of researchers from Mundo Sano foundation and the School of Exact and Natural Sciences of Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires published a paper analyzing the residual effect of a larvae killer (temephos) used in dengue prevention campaigns.
Mundo Sano and DNDi work together in order to improve access to drugs for Chagas disease and Malaria
A team of researchers from Mundo Sano foundation and the School of Exact and Natural Sciences of Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires published a paper analyzing the residual effect of a larvae killer (temephos) used in dengue prevention campaigns.
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