Lessons from the successful elimination of trachoma in Togo
In May 2022, Togo was validated by the WHO for a significant milestone: its elimination of trachoma as a public health problem. What can we learn from… Read more »
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New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a naturally occurring… Read more »
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The Potential Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease
A new review in the journal Infectious Diseases of Poverty takes a look at papers examining the effect climate change will have on… Read more »
Are giardiasis-related pathologies caused only by certain Giardia duodenalis assemblages: Molecular epidemiology and assemblage typing of giardiasis infections along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »
Training for Community Health Workers embraces the new normal
Community health workers in Bangladesh had to adapt quickly during COVID-19 to continue their accurate and much-needed support.… Read more »
The prospect of a better treatment for Chagas disease and human African sleeping sickness
The identification and discovery of the mode of action of a class of drugs, the cyanotriazoles, that poison trypanosomatids has… Read more »
The Intersecting challenges of conflict- and climate-related internal displacement for neglected tropical disease programmes.
Governments, donors and NGOs need to address the impact of climate change and conflict on NTD control and elimination efforts, as… Read more »
Could making buffets for mosquitoes help us learn about their preferences for human hosts?
Mosquitoes use scent cues to locate humans to feed upon, but do some humans smell more appealing than others, and if so, why?
Malaria Prevention in Rural Cambodia
A new study in Malaria Journal examines the challenges of studying and preventing the disease in rural Cambodia and points to… Read more »
Is a new threat being blustered to Africa?
A mosquito vector of malaria normally found in Asia is moving into African cities. How did it travel there and is this a cause for… Read more »