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INTRODUCTION The Technical Meeting on Chemotherapy of Malaria was held in Geneva during 14-19 November 1960. The meeting was opened by Dr P. M. Kaul, Assistant Director-General, WHO. Dr Kaul welcomed the participants, and described the growing importance of maIaria chemotherapy in the world campaign aimed at eradicating the disease. Because of the increasing prominence of chemotherapy many problems connected with the selection and use of antimalaria compounds, singly or ...
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This work represented the continuation of a double-blind, randomized clinical trial to test the efficacy of benznidazole in seropositive children. Carried out in a rural area of the State of Goias, Brazil, between 1991-95, the trial showed that a 60-day (7.5 mg/kg daily) course of benznidazole treatment of early chronic T. cruzi infection was effective in producing negative seroconversion of specific antibodies in 55.8% of cases. It was also shown that after five years o...
1. INTRODUCTION Clinical research to strengthen and realfgn towards HF412000 was the topic for technical discussions at the Fourteenth Session of the South-East Asia Advisory Committee on Health Research (SEA/ACHR) which met at Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 19 to 25 Aprrl 1988. Prof. J.S. Guleria, Member, SEA/ACHR, presented A working paper and the subject was discussed at length.
The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences is pleased to acknowledge the support, technical and financial, of special programmes of the World Health Organization, particularly of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS, the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, and the WHO Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, in the preparation of the Conference and finalization of the Intern...