A landscape review of malaria vaccine candidates in the pipeline.

Background: Globally, malaria continues to pose a major health challenge, with approximately 247 million cases of the illness and 627,000 deaths reported in 2021. However, the threat is particularly pronounced in sub-Saharan African countries, where pregnant women and children under the age of five face heightened vulnerability to the disease. As a result, the imperative to develop malaria vaccines especially for these vulnerable populations, remains crucial in the pursuit of malaria eradication.

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SITUATION OF URINARY SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN TAMWAH AREA, GIZA, EGYPT: ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL.

Preliminary studies were carried out on schistosomiasis in Giza Governorate for the last three years. These studies revealed that Tamwah village was one of areas afflicted by the highest number of Schistosoma haematobium infection cases. 'The study assessed the epidemiological situation of S.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN DIALYSIS AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION REGARDING THE CAUSES AND SURVIVAL PERIOD OF THE PATIENTS IN WESTERN AREA. LIBYA.

As the number of renal failure patients in Libya reached to 3,700 patients (kindly provided by Libyan Ministry of Health), this study aimed to help Libyan people suffering from renal failure to making a wisdom decision about choice of renal transplantation or treatment with dialysis. This study found the main causes of renal failure among people in western area of Lib- ya, due to ages and survival time between patient undergoing dialysis and kidney transplantation. Out of 140 patients' files that were collected from different hospital and specialized centers in western Libya, 98(70%) patients were treated with dialysis while the rest 42 patients (30%) underwent kidney transplantation.

SURVEILLANCE OF TRYPANOSOMA SPP OF RODENTS AND STUDIES IN THEIR TRANSMISSION PROBABILITY BY FLEAS IN SOME RURAL EGYPTIAN AREAS.

A new public health problem arises from animal trypanosomes that afflict human by a disease called atypical human trypanosomiasis. Although humans have an innate protection against most Trypanosoma species, nineteen cases of atypical human trypanosomiasis caused by the animal trypanosome as T. b.

REEVALUATION OF MALARIA PARASITES IN EL-FAYOUM GOVERNORATE, EGYPT USING RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TESTS (RDTS).

Malaria as a disease has been identified in Egypt since ancient times. Malaria was endemic in almost all parts of the country but prevalence showed a steady decrease by 1990, and regressed in most of the Governorates. Then by the end of 1998 till now Egypt become free from local transmission of malaria.