Vector Control

  • Coverage and contextual factors associated with insecticide-treated net use among women of reproductive age in Nigeria: evidence from the 2021 malaria indicator survey data – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • Safety and effectiveness of triple-drug therapy with ivermectin, diethylcarbamazine, and albendazole in reducing lymphatic filariasis prevalence and clearing circulating filarial antigens in Mombasa, Kenya – Link
  • Epigenetic Inhibitors Show Promise in malaria treatment – Link | Link to Paper

Data

  • Modeling the non-integer dynamics of a vector-borne infection with nonlocal and nonsingular kernel – Link
  • Advancing malaria reactive case detection in a Zambia-like setting: A modeling study – Link

Drug resistance

  • Impact of the Global Fund Regional Artemisinin-resistance Initiative on malaria control and elimination in the Greater Mekong subregion of southeast Asia – Link

Immunisation

  • Mass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip – Link
  • Protecting the Central African Republic’s remote communities from polio – Link

Surveillance

  • Post elimination cluster of Lymphatic Filariasis, Futuna, 2024 – Link

Elimination progress

  • Technical Advisory Group urges strong action to eradicate polio in Afghanistan – Link 
  • Sustaining efforts to end river blindness disease in Congo – Link
  • Niger’s river blindness lesson – Link  
  • Neglected tropical diseases in China – Link
  • Discrepancies in neglected tropical diseases burden estimates in China: comparative study of real-world data and Global Burden of Disease 2021 data (2004-2020) – Link
  • Mass drug administration campaign for lymphatic filariasis launched in Banke district – Link

Climate and Health

  • Climate change as a threat to global health. The perspective of the WHO – Link

Other

  • Improving neglected tropical disease services and integration into primary healthcare in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region, Ethiopia: Results from a mixed methods evaluation of feasibility, acceptability and cost effectiveness – Link
  • Innovative finance brings new river blindness medicine to Africa – Link
  • Subnational tailoring of malaria interventions to prioritize the malaria response in Guinea – Link
  • Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) supply and demand update – Link
  • Research on neglected tropical diseases in Haiti: a scientometrics analysis, 1923-2022 – Link
  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia confirms US$ 500 million commitment to global polio eradication effort – Link
  • Polio this week – Link
  • Engaging the Youth: Strategies for Involving Young People in Combating Neglected Tropical Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa – Link
  • NYU Abu Dhabi researchers identify key immune differences that make one West African ethnic group less susceptible to malaria – Link | Link to Paper
  • Potential new target for malaria discovered – Link | Link to Paper
  • Carter Center, Lions Clubs International Foundation renew partnership to end causes of preventable blindness – Link
  • Asia-Pacific falling behind on sustainable development and climate targets – Link | Link to Paper