Archive for July 2024

As a medical oncologist and Executive Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute, Dr Jackson Orem has decades of experience in oncology research. In an article in Nature’s Communications Medicine, he shed light on the complexity and dynamism of cancer care, a practice based deeply on evolving research and advancing technologies.   Drawing from his extensive…

In an article in Communications Medicine, a professor of epidemiology points out that cancer used to be a disease of the affluent, reserved predominantly for people in high-income countries. In the past few decades, however, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have become home to a high burden of cancer-related morbidity and mortality.   In the…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) claims that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the leading public health and development threats in the world. The global health agency estimates that in 2019, 1.27 million deaths were a direct consequence of AMR. In total, AMR contributed to an astounding 4.95 million deaths that year.   With many…

Kala azar, black fever, or visceral leishmaniasis. VL for short.   The most serious of three main forms of leishmaniasis, VL is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that is almost always fatal if left untreated. Like the other kinds of leishmaniasis, it is caused by protozoan parasites, transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine…