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Mashup Score: 10The Viral Most Wanted: The Retroviruses - 5 day(s) ago
AIDS was recognised as a new disease in 1981. The cause of AIDS was identified as a virus that had almost certainly jumped from chimpanzees into humans at least several decades earlier somewhere in Central Africa. The virus—now known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV—has since infected an estimated 85 million people all across the world, killing more than 40 million of them.
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Mashup Score: 1In Bangladesh, a new way to map typhoid promises to aid vaccination strategy design - 1 month(s) ago
Salmonella Typhi is tricky to culture in the lab. But a group of scientists in Dhaka have shown that a virus that preys on the typhoid bacterium works as a proxy tracker.
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Mashup Score: 3India resolves to reduce cervical cancer by vaccinating girls - 2 month(s) ago
As India plans to roll out HPV vaccines nationwide, TV Padma surveys the state of play in a country that currently sees one cervical cancer death every seven minutes.
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Mashup Score: 1Anthropologists explain why trust rather than facts will convince people to take vaccines - 3 month(s) ago
Vaccine “hesitancy” is far more complex than being anti-vax. Understanding the reasons for people’s hesitancy is key.
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Mashup Score: 8HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected - 3 month(s) ago
A significant number of older adults in rural South Africa are HIV-positive. Awareness programmes and self-testing would reduce cases.
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Mashup Score: 0Could vaccine patches pave the road to a measles-free world? - 3 month(s) ago
In Ghana, Francis Kokutse considers the potential impact of needle-free immunisation.
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Malaria in Africa accounts for 96% of deaths worldwide. Cabo Verde became only the third country in Africa to be declared malaria free this year. This is how they did it.
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Mashup Score: 3Goodbye syringe? Measles and rubella patch demonstrates its worth in Gambia vaccine trial - 4 month(s) ago
Painless, easier to administer and more thermostable than traditional vaccines, microarray patches are being touted as the future of vaccination in low-income and pandemic settings.
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Mashup Score: 65Why some people don’t trust science – and how to change their minds - 4 month(s) ago
People who are suspicious of science often assume they understand it well – and that others agree with them.
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Mashup Score: 7208
Today, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance approved the appointment of Dr Sania Nishtar as its next Chief Executive Officer.
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🆕 @gavi feature takes a close look at the similarities, differences & impact of various #Retroviruses, including #HIV type 1 & 2. https://t.co/0nzPHwSTbq