Improving sanitation through WASH in remote rural villages
A lack of safe drinking water and sanitation are primary causes of diarrhea: highly prevalent in developing countries, it lead to a staggering 9.2% of… Read more »
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The action of actinonin: a new antimalarial drug and target
The apicomplast, a Plasmodium-specific organelle, proves to be a promising target for a new anti-malaria drug
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Improving infant health: What’s the role for social policy?
In 2015, 193 UN Member States adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which have the potential to significantly benefit… Read more »
To deworm or not to deworm?
The details of the debate on mass deworming in high-risk communities
Do Spatial Insecticides Have a Future in Vector Control?
Current vector control strategies involving LLINs and IRS are effective against malaria transmitting mosquitoes. However, the rise… Read more »
Out of Africa – The new origin story for Malaria
New sampling and sequencing of malaria parasite from apes and monkeys is re-writing the phylogeny and origin story of one of… Read more »
Are African governments in the driver’s seat when it comes to health financing policymaking?
A review published today in Global Health Research and Policy explores whether governments have ownership of the policy making… Read more »
Decline in malaria funding may put malaria elimination efforts at risk
Rima Shretta and her colleagues, recently published their findings on how the recent decline in funding could impact malaria… Read more »
Healthy child, healthy future: Highlights from RCPCH conference 2017
BMC Pediatrics had the pleasure of attending the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) annual conference which… Read more »
Mosquitoes and the biocontrol agent Wolbachia
Facilitated by increasing global mobility, urbanisation, climate change, and the development of insecticide resistance,… Read more »