Fecal beads to act as the core of the intestinal microbiota for clostridioides difficile treatment

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Clostridioides difficile infection causes severe diarrhea and is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections with significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. When it relapses, the disease must be treated by fecal microbiota transplantation. This treatment, which is administered via a nasogastric or colorectal tube, is very demanding. Now researchers at the University…

MSF warns of looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps

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More funding is urgently needed to avert a looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. A cholera outbreak in the camps has affected 2,786 people so far and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastro-intestinal diseases, warns MSF, which is…

Europe must not abandon the quest for an effective HIV vaccine

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On this HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, IAS – the International AIDS Society– calls for the re-engagement of all stakeholders, especially in Europe, in funding HIV vaccine research and development (R&D).  After more than 40 years since HIV was discovered, there have been breakthroughs in curbing acquisition through pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral therapy (ART). However,…

Investing in safe surgery could cut costs and save lives in LMICs

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Investing in developing systems of safe surgery to reduce Surgical Site Infection (SSI) will help to reduce the financial burden on health services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), a new study reveals. Analysing inpatient resource use in India, Ghana, Nigeria and Mexico, researchers discovered that additional investigations and hospital length of stay for a…

WHO Asks Countries to Halve Anemia Prevalence by 2030

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The World Health Organization (WHO)  has launched its first-ever comprehensive framework on reducing anemia calling on countries to accelerate action to halve anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age by 2025.  Anemia remains a serious global public health problem, affecting 571 million women and 269 million young children worldwide, according to data from the organization. The complication, which is…

Machine for making COVID-19 diagnostics worth UGX 5.14 million of tax payers’ money lies idle

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Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee-Central Government has noted a possibility of the tax payer losing 1.59 billion Shillings in unutilized COVID-19 equipment purchased by the disbanded Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. The equipment identified as the Dr Oligo DNA Synthesizer Machine was procured for a scientist from M/S Micro Haem Scientific and Medical Supplies Limited,…