Lochacharuk Akwiny and his daughter Chepterit Lochacharuk who is recovering from Kala-azar at the treatment centre. At Kacheliba in West Pokot is a treatment centre that caters to Kala-azar — a ...

In February 2022, Simon Kimwele, a resident of Wikithuki village in Kitui County, received a phone call that would change his life forever. The local area chief urged him to rush his son to the ...

Longorot Epuu’s 8-year-old niece, his namesake, was sick. Epuu quickly recognized the signs of kala-azar, the “black fever,” while visiting his brother’s family in a neighboring village in Kenya’s ...

Monique Wasunna is the director of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative Africa Regional Office. Eleven years ago, in the rugged hills of West Pokot County in Kenya, Mary Alamak, a mother of ...

Kala-azar is a parasitic disease transmitted by sandflies. It devours its victims slowly, draining blood, swelling organs, and hollowing faces. Despite the availability of lifesaving drugs through ...

Countries in the Indian subcontinent have committed to reducing the incidence of kala-azar, a clinical manifestation of visceral leishmaniasis, to below 1 in 10,000 by 2020. We address the role of ...

I HAVE chosen the subject of twenty years' research on kala-azar for the main portion of my address to-night, both because of the great importance of this disease in a large area of India, and also of ...

Kala-azar or dum-dum fever, disease common in China, India and South America but very rare in the U. S., revealed itself in New York City last week. George Mosher, 14, was the victim. The cause of the ...