Tropical countries: 2013 Medical personality points poverty and education as challenges

Besides poverty and corruption, some tropical countries, as Brazil, do not take basic education seriously and, thus, have an awful quality public health and an embarrassing HDI

"Medicine in tropical countries is not more difficul that in others. The great problem of some countries' is poverty – this is not Brazil's case, which is basically rich, it is the 7th economy in the world". The affirmative comes from Dr. Jose Rodrigues Coura, chief of the Parasitary Diseases Laboratory from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (Fiocruz/RJ).

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Indian study reinforces the importance of finding a new drug against leishmaniasis

Indian province records high leishmaniasis incidence and the population is highly resistant to the treatment: the cause could be the presence of arsenic in the consumed water

Unlike Brazil, where the dog is the major leishmaniasis transmitter, in the Indian state Bihar, the parasites are transmitted from person to person through the bite of a small fly. The problem is that, as in Brazil and other poor and tropical countries, the lack of infrastructure and favorable environment ensures the development of the sandflies – the disease's transmitter.

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