Africa's meningitis belt: why there's a case for a booster vaccination drive: A child receives the MenAfriVac™ vaccine in Burkina Faso. WHO/Flickr, CC BY-NDA number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa – including Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, collectively known as the meningitis belt – have been repeatedly devastated by overwhelming epidemics of meningitis. In 1996-1997 the … [Read more...] about Africa’s meningitis belt: why there’s a case for a booster vaccination drive | The Conversation
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Meningitis: Africa needs to join forces (again) to secure a lower cost vaccine | The Conversation
Meningitis: Africa needs to join forces (again) to secure a lower cost vaccine: FlickrMeningitis is an infectious and life-threatening bacterial disease that infects and inflames the brain and spinal cord. It’s a disease that the world has been able to prevent through vaccines for more than a decade – yet thousands of people are still dying from it … [Read more...] about Meningitis: Africa needs to join forces (again) to secure a lower cost vaccine | The Conversation
A new meningitis screening test could help cut South Africa’s HIV/AIDS deathtoll | The Conversation
A new meningitis screening test could help cut South Africa's HIV/AIDS deathtoll: A photomicrograph of the Cryptococcus fungus. www.einstein.yu.eduSouth Africa has launched the world’s largest national screening programme to detect cryptococcal meningitis – an AIDS-defining fungal opportunistic infection in patients living with HIV – sooner than it would have been picked up in … [Read more...] about A new meningitis screening test could help cut South Africa’s HIV/AIDS deathtoll | The Conversation
