Today, May 5th at the ISHAM conference GAFFI has launched the project ‘95-95 by 2025’ at Melbourne in Australia, calling on all national governments and public health agencies to reduce the toll of death and blindness from fungal diseases. 95-95 means 95 percent of patients with life or sight-threatening fungal disease are diagnosed and 95 percent… Read more »
Posts By: Graham Atherton
Fungal disease burden in 9 countries from 4 WHO regions presented at ECCMID, ISHAM and API
Fungal disease burden in another nine countries covering a further 490.5 million people has been estimated by LIFE collaborators. Data from Nepal and Thailand in Asia, Canada, Ecuador and Chile from the Americas, Jordan and Egypt from the Middle East, and Indonesia and New Zealand from Oceania bring the total countries with fungal burden estimates, undertaken… Read more »
Professor Donald Cole of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto is appointed as a GAFFI Senior Advisor
The current ‘black hole’ in Public Health Mycology has been increasingly recognised by GAFFI as a major problem worldwide. Professor Donald Cole brings broad expertise in public health to support GAFFI in responding to this major gap. He was founding Director of the Collaborative PhD Program in Global Health at the University of Toronto and… Read more »
Improved 12-month survival when community support provided alongside and crypotococcal antigen screening , in advanced HIV infection in Africa
Around 10 million people in Africa receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection, but mortality during the first year of treatment particularly in the first few months, is very high, much higher than in Europeans. Notably tuberculosis and cryptococcal meningitis account for the majority of deaths in Africa in HIV patients. A paper published in the… Read more »
Fungal disease Deaths- only $30 per patient would give major reduction in AIDS globally
The early detection and treatment of fungal meningitis and pneumonia can save hundreds of thousands of lives, for a cost of ‘only $30’ per HIV patient, the world’s first stakeholder meeting on fungal diseases has concluded. The meeting in Seattle, was hosted by GAFFI (Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections) and held in Seattle. Policy… Read more »
India has one of the highest rates of Candida bloodstream infection in the world
In the first study of Candida bloodstream infection in 27 Intensive Care Units (ICU) in India, an incidence of 6.51 cases per 1,000 ICU admissions was seen, equating to ~90,000 cases nationally. Mortality varied from 35-75%; about 40,000 deaths. An estimated 14.3 million patients are admitted to ICUs in India each year. The true burden… Read more »
GAFFI leaders highlight India’s plight as fungal infection capital of the world
Crucial talks took place yesterday (January 27th) in Dehli to highlight the plight of millions of people in India who die needlessly of fungal infection because of poor diagnosis and treatment. Leaders from GAFFI, the Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections, met with India’s Health Minister JP Nadda, following talks with country representatives of the… Read more »
WHO issues guidelines on skin and oral conditions in HIV adults and children
Late in 2014, the World Health Organisation issued guidelines for the management of several HIV-related skin and oral diseases, in low resource settings. Led by Prof Rod Hay (International Foundation for Dermatology, London) and Toby Maurer (UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco), all the clinical trial evidence for diagnosis and management was scrutinized using the… Read more »
Department for International Development, UK, to boost Kenya’s business development.
The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) will spend £19 million (Sh2.7billion) in wealth creation projects in Kenya in 2015. Kenya is one of GAFFI’s ‘demonstration’ countries with improved diagnostic facilities planned for all the major hospitals. The planned investment is aimed at helping the Kenyan economy achieve a 10 per cent growth rate… Read more »
GAFFI recognises world AIDS day, by applying for Itraconazole to be included on Essential Medicines List
Pioneering health charity GAFFI is today calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help hundreds of thousand of AIDS and HIV positive patients worldwide by including itraconazole on the Essential Medicine List (EML). GAFFI’s application to the WHO, in collaboration with the International Foundation for Dermatology, pinpoints key fungal diseases in AIDS for which… Read more »
