Vector Control

  • Using non-insecticidal traps indoors can complement insecticide-treated nets to target insecticide-resistant malaria vectors – Link
  • Twenty-first meeting of the WHO Vector Control Advisory Group – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • Moxidectin combination therapies for lymphatic filariasis: an open-label, observer-masked, randomised controlled trial – Link

AI and innovation

  • Indonesia develops AI system to help diagnose malaria – Link

Drug resistance

  • Mitigating resistance to malaria treatments in sub-Saharan Africa requires more than new drugs – Link

Surveillance

  • Nigeria’s polio battleground – Link 
  • Genome-wide population genetics and molecular surveillance of insecticide resistance in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes from Awash Sebat Kilo in Ethiopia – Link

Elimination progress

  • Pakistan: the women heroes of polio eradication – Link
  • Nigeria’s multi-pronged malaria elimination approach gains momentum – Link
  • Progression of lymphatic filariasis antigenaemia and microfilaraemia over 4.5 years in antigen-positive individuals, Samoa 2019-2023 – Link
  • Commentary: Malaria ends with us — time to reinvest, reimagine, and reignite – Link
  • Is the world on track to eradicate malaria? – Link 

Outbreak

  • Characterization of malaria outbreak in Marsabit county, Kenya, March 2024 – Link

Climate and Health

  • The health care cost of a warming climate – Link
  • Extreme weather and climate change impacts hit Africa hard – Link

Other

  • Fighting malaria, hepatitis E, crop pests, hypertension, and breast cancer – Link
  • Outcomes and cost-effectiveness of an integrated holistic care package on persons affected by podoconiosis, lymphatic filariasis and leprosy and community members in north-western Ethiopia: an implementation research study – Link
  • Perspectives of men and women working in vector control in Africa regarding barriers and opportunities for achieving gender inclusivity – Link
  • Exploring barriers and facilitators in implementation fidelity of malaria screening
  • intervention at Nepal-India border point-of-entry health desks-A mixed method study – Link
  • The psychosocial and emotional burden of lymphatic filariasis: A systematic review – Link
  • Co-developing a comprehensive disease policy model with stakeholders: The case of malaria during pregnancy – Link
  • Integrating community health workers to sustain malaria services in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Findings from implementer case studies – Link
  • The psychosocial and emotional burden of lymphatic filariasis: A systematic review – Link
  • Global preventive and management strategies and their effectiveness in patients with secondary lymphedema: a scoping review – Link
  • Why south-east Asia must lead the fight against neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • How we can defeat malaria by 2030 – Link
  • WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory – Link
  • Michael Ramharter—tackling tropical infectious diseases – Link