Francine Niyonsaba

BURUNDI: Students facing hunger receive meals; Rise Against Hunger partners with Salesian Missions, which works to identify needs

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Monday, March 6, 2023
Friends, Poverty, Hunger, Student, Education, Treasury, Face, Lunch, Great Lakes, Meal, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Partnership, Food, Violence, Rise Against Hunger, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Don Bosco School, UNICEF, Agriculture, Francine Niyonsaba, Parent, Vegetable, Nursing

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Students attending Don Bosco High School, located in Ngozi, Burundi*, had access to better nutrition during the second half of 2022 thanks to a partnership between Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, and Rise Against Hunger, an international relief organization that provides food and life-changing aid to the world's most vulnerable.

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  • The school has been facing challenges with a lack of food due to excessive rain that destroyed crops in the region.
  • Don Bosco High School struggles to provide food to students and to pay the salaries of workers so they can feed their families.
  • In addition to providing Rise Against Hunger meals, Salesians with the school are developing an agriculture project on six hectares of school land.
  • Rise Against Hunger partners with Salesian Missions , which works to identify needs and coordinate delivery of 40-foot shipping containers full of meals and supplemented with additional supplies when available.

Juntendo University research: Itchy business: Investigating a cure for eczema

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Inflammation, Irritant, Atopic dermatitis, Autophagy, Protein, Aryl hydrocarbon receptor, HBDS, Mouse, Interleukin, Francine Niyonsaba, Skin, Quality of life, Allergen, Cell, Journal, Scabs, Association, Dermatitis, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Immune system, Juntendo University, Allergy, Patient, Medical device, Vaccine

Now, a team of researchers from Juntendo University, led by Franois Niyonsaba, has revealed a candidate called human--defensin-3 (hBD-3) with potential in this regard.

Key Points: 
  • Now, a team of researchers from Juntendo University, led by Franois Niyonsaba, has revealed a candidate called human--defensin-3 (hBD-3) with potential in this regard.
  • One of the characteristics of AD is the disruption of the outermost layer of the skin: the epidermal barrier.
  • Inside the cells that line this barrier, a mechanism called autophagy is involved in their differentiation and antimicrobial activity.
  • Using the skin of human patients and mice with AD, the state of autophagy in affected cells was first analyzed.

Juntendo University research: Itchy business: Investigating a cure for eczema

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Inflammation, Irritant, Atopic dermatitis, Autophagy, Protein, Aryl hydrocarbon receptor, HBDS, Mouse, Interleukin, Francine Niyonsaba, Skin, Allergen, Cell, Journal, Scabs, Association, Dermatitis, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Immune system, Juntendo University, Allergy, Patient, Medical device, Vaccine

Now, a team of researchers from Juntendo University, led by Franois Niyonsaba, has revealed a candidate called human--defensin-3 (hBD-3) with potential in this regard.

Key Points: 
  • Now, a team of researchers from Juntendo University, led by Franois Niyonsaba, has revealed a candidate called human--defensin-3 (hBD-3) with potential in this regard.
  • One of the characteristics of AD is the disruption of the outermost layer of the skin: the epidermal barrier.
  • Inside the cells that line this barrier, a mechanism called autophagy is involved in their differentiation and antimicrobial activity.
  • Using the skin of human patients and mice with AD, the state of autophagy in affected cells was first analyzed.