Still much left to do on neglected tropical diseases

In Tanzania and across Africa, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a daily reality for many children, families and communities. Despite efforts to control and eliminate them, trachoma, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), lymphatic filariasis, leprosy, onchocerciasis (river blindness), soil-transmitted helminths, and schistosomiasis continue to threaten Tanzania’s citizens.

>Some of the world’s most gruesome diseases are finally getting a bit of attention.The worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which has already killed at least 2,296 people in West Africa, has triggered a scramble to develop the first drug or vaccine for a deadly disease that was discovered nearly 40 years ago in the forests of central Africa.

Exercise unearths 221 neglected disabled children in Kibaha
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THE Kibaha Municipal Council in Coast Region conducted an exercise and identified 221 children with special needs and disabilities, who are not in schools. According to the Council's Deputy Chairman, Mr Sloom Bagumesh, the municipality conducted the ...

>Northern Zone’s Land Commissioner Office has initiated an inspection and verification exercise to identify undeveloped lands, including farms, for the purpose of revoking their title deeds.

>What is left for Europe’s mainstream center-left? Socialist and social democratic parties that shaped the protective European social model and ruled much of the continent a decade ago have been among the chief political casualties of the financial and economic crisis since 2008.

Waterlogged Texas was getting set for another soaking as Tropical Storm Bill barreled towards the coast on Tuesday morning.Weather Channel meteorologist Kevin Roth warned that "the biggest calling card for Bill should be heavy rains and flooding," but said "anybody who lives in a low lying area should make plans not to be in that low lying areas" after the storm hits.
Texas is still recovering from record rains and flooding that killed dozens in May.
Bill was expected to make landfall between...

The Diversity of Tropical Forest Carbon Sinks Is More Complicated Than We Thought  ScienceAlert

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Climate crisis may have pushed world's tropical coral reefs to tipping point of 'near-annual' bleaching  The Guardian