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Update on Moxidectin Clinical Trials in Africa
As you may remember, back in 2006, Dr Fisher, Wyeth Vice President, gave a keynote address on the safety profile of moxidectin which was then undergoing phase II clinical trials in Ghana for river blindness. Wyeth has now received a positive opinion from the EMEA and approval from Liberia, Ghana and DRC, to commence phase III trials. This article from the Tropical Disease Research centre highlights this program and some of the challenges involved in buidling sustainable infrastructures in Africa.
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Register now for ASTS Satellite Conference 2009
Satellite conference will bring experts and stakeholders together to discuss toxicological challenges and begin the development of policy framework for integrating the practice of toxicology in African countries. An especial focus will be placed on expanding on earlier ASTS-sponsored sessions of defining/prioritizing toxicological challenges in Africa, expanding on the concepts of feasible risk management options, and building resource capacity for governmental entities, scientists and students in Africa.
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Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
Battery recycling leaves deadly levels of contamination, claims 18 children
Associated Press: updated 3:47 a.m. ET, Sun., Jan. 4, 2009
THIAROYE SUR MER, Senegal - First, it took the animals. Goats fell silent and refused to stand up. Chickens died in handfuls, then en masse. Street dogs disappeared.
Then it took the children. Toddlers stopped talking and their legs gave out. Women birthed stillborns. Infants withered and died. Some said the houses were cursed. Others said the families were cursed.
The mysterious illness killed 18 children in this town on the fringes of Dakar, Senegal's capital, before anyone in the outside world noticed. When they did — when the TV news aired parents' angry pleas for an investigation, when the doctors ordered more tests, when the West sent health experts — they did not find malaria, or polio or AIDS, or any of the diseases that kill the poor of Africa.
They found lead.
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