These students went to Kenya to find ways to prevent one of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases.
You may never have heard of visceral leishmaniasis, even though it’s the second deadliest parasitic disease in the world. As far as this...
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Catherine Wenger
- Feb 6, 2022
- 1 min
Kala-azar: The burden of anaemic illness in the northern counties
By Fred Kibor, Sammy Lutta, Florah Koech and Oscar Kakai on February 3, 2022 Patients from all over Kenya travel to Chemolingot...
Sarah Weihl
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
Co-ops Shift from Studying a Tropical Disease to Fighting a New Outbreak
By Molly Callahan on December 7, 2021 Sarah Weihl and Catherine Wenger, both fifth-year students at Northeastern, had only recently begun...
Hugh Shirley
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min
TARGETING DISEASES BEYOND OUR BORDERS
Northeastern University researchers recently returned from a four-day workshop in Kenya, where they worked with local health experts to...
Hugh Shirley
- Jun 21, 2020
- 1 min
Strengthening the clinical infrastructure of Chemolingot Sub-County Hospital in Baringo, Kenya
Western Pokot is one of the six areas within the region of Baringo. It is located in the north west of Kenya. Its population exceeds...
Hugh Shirley
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Global Surgery: A Forgotten Piece of the Health Puzzle
By Hugh Shirley In the world of global health, it’s pills, vaccines, and other preventive measures often at center stage. Most...
Hugh Shirley
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min
A disease you may not have heard of kills 20,000 people every year. It doesn’t have to.
by Anthony Kuria Wanjiru on August 12, 2019 BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya—Ten-year-old Lopeto Losile looked confused. He sat on a wooden bench in...
Hugh Shirley
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min
Africa constitutes 40% of those affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases in world
By Vibha Varshney and Lominda Afedraru on November 28, 2018 Around 20 people have gathered at a grassy patch in front of a tin shed in...
Hugh Shirley
- Apr 20, 2020
- 1 min
This tropical disease is second only to malaria as a parasitic killer.
by Bill Ibelle on June 6, 2018 One form of the disease begins with large open sores that won’t heal, then migrates to the nose and lips,...
Hugh Shirley
- Mar 20, 2020
- 1 min
What Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze Means for the Most Vulnerable Countries
By Aryn Baker and Joseph Hincks on April 17, 2020 On April 14,the first batch of World Health Organization medical supplies arrived in...
Hugh Shirley
- Mar 20, 2020
- 1 min
Our gaping blind spot in the fight against pandemics
By Schuyler Velasco on April 8, 2020 Infectious diseases in poor, remote regions can wreak havoc for years without any attention....
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