Vector Control

  • Molecular xenomonitoring for identifying Plasmodium parasites and blood meal sources of mosquitoes in malaria endemic villages adjacent to the southern Rift Valley Lakes, South Ethiopia – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • Reimagining radical cure for Plasmodium vivax – Link
  • NTDscope: A multi-contrast portable microscope for disease diagnosis – Link

Data

  • Africa needs data to drive NTD elimination – Link
  • The WHO IRIS APOC Collection: an electronic resource of the OCP and APOC experience and data to inform onchocerciasis elimination strategies – Link

AI and Innovations

  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts develops AI to detect skin diseases in Africa – Link
  • Affordable microscope speeds up malaria diagnosis with AI – Link
  • Artificial Intelligence-Driven Approaches to Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Prediction – Link

Drug and vaccine development

  • Truly spectacular’ drug for sleeping sickness simplifies treatment, raising hopes for eradication – Link
  • Study reveals immune blueprint for next-generation malaria vaccine – Link | Link to Paper
  • Novel oral polio vaccine type 2 by India’s Biological E achieves WHO prequalification – Link

Drug resistance

  • DNA marker in malaria mosquitoes may be pivotal in tackling insecticide resistance – Link

Immunisation

  • Angola and Namibia strengthen joint response to Polio with synchronized border campaign – Link
  • Uptake of malaria vaccine (RTS,S/AS01) among children aged 6–24 months: A cross-sectional survey conducted in the Western region of Cameroon, 1 year following the vaccine introduction – Link
  • Mobilizing 400,000 WHO-trained polio workers to vaccinate 45 million children in Pakistan – Link
  • Vaccines are bringing us closer to the eradication of polio – Link

Elimination progress

  • Global 2030 Goals lag for skin neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Measuring progress of 2030 skin-related neglected tropical diseases sustainable development goals – Link 
  • Building lasting protection against filariasis across Indonesia – Link
  • WHO validates elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Libya – Link
  • A six-pronged approach to manage a Plasmodium vivax outbreak in a low- and middle-income country on the road to malaria elimination – Link
  • Reaching the last mile with ivermectin mass drug administration against onchocerciasis: The case of Kwanware-Ottou persistent transmission focus in the Wenchi health district of Ghana – Link
  • Progress towards interrupting onchocerciasis transmission in the Oulibangala focus, Chad – Link
  • Reaching the unreachable: accelerating onchocerciasis elimination in Yemen – Link

Outbreak

  • Malawi vaccinates 1.3 million children in response to polio outbreak – Link
  • EMR Polio Bulletin – World Health Organization – Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean Issue No. 1429, Week 07 (ending on 22/02/2026) – Link

Climate and Health

  • Climate change could hinder malaria eradication efforts – Link
  • An urgent need to build climate and health intervention trial capacity – Link

Other

  • First-ever Lancet Commission on skin health elevates dermatology on the global health agenda – Link
  • Host iron deficiency protects against Plasmodium infection and drives parasite molecular reprofiling – Link
  • Frightening by names, dangerous to lives: Why eliminating neglected tropical diseases matters – Link
  • Anopheles (Kerteszia) cruzii, the main malaria vector in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, is a complex of at least five cryptic species – Link
  • Onchocerciasis: How to fight a parasite that threatens eyesight – Link
  • America First, Africa Last? Health data deals and the new scramble for pathogens – Link
  • Advancing global health access through market shaping: Cases and learnings – Link
  • WHO continues large-scale malaria response across Yemen – Link
  • Reduced cyclin D3 expression in erythroid cells protects against malaria – Link
  • Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials for onchocerciasis, loiasis and mansonellosis: A systematic review – Link
  • Keeping malaria treatment effective in Papua through monitoring today to protect tomorrow – Link
  • Strengthening health systems through NTD integration: Key insights from a multi-country webinar – Link
  • Effectiveness of community-based and community-led interventions to improve the psychosocial well-being of those affected by skin-NTDs: A systematic review – Link
  • Effects of a bloodless diet on fitness and malaria susceptibility in Anopheles mosquitoes from Burkina Faso – Link
  • A new tool at a complex time for malaria decision making – Link
  • WHO malaria terminology 2025, Third edition – Link
  • Poverty and malaria vaccine price cuts – Link
  • Summary of the fortieth meeting of the international Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) October 28-29, 2025 – Link
  • Delineation of onchocerciasis operational transmission zones of Burkina Faso – Link
  • Empowering the next generation: the END fund field entomology mentorship program – Link
  • Important entomological events in the history of onchocerciasis – Link
  • Repurposing oxfendazole for onchocerciasis: Population pharmacokinetics of a tablet formulation in healthy African adults – Link
  • The importance of focusing on entomology in the efforts to eliminate onchocerciasis – Link
  • Defining onchocerciasis transmission zones: Integrating operational insights with genomic and ecological advances – Link
  • Reaching the last mile with ivermectin mass drug administration against onchocerciasis: The case of Kwanware-Ottou persistent transmission focus in the Wenchi health district of Ghana – Link
  • Delineation of onchocerciasis operational transmission zones of Burkina Faso – Link
  • Onchocerciasis elimination mapping in Malawi: Mapping of vector Simulium breeding sites using an integrated approach of community knowledge and topographical maps – Link
  • Adult blackfly (Simulium damnosum s.l.) collection methods: overview and research needs – Link
  • An innovative concept of using community information for surveys and developing a map of Simulium breeding sites – Link
  • Japan supports polio eradication and immunization in Afghanistan with US$6.3 million contribution – Link
  • Establishing a filarial clinical research platform in a resource-limited setting: Lessons and experiences from Tanzania – Link
  • Global update on implementation of preventive chemotherapy against neglected tropical diseases in 2024 – Link 
  • Helen Keller in New York Times: ‘Giving up is not an option’ in battle against neglected  – Link  
  • World Governments Summit: UAE leads global effort to end river blindness in Ghana – Link 
  • Angola marks World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day with structural advances in the national response – Link 
  • mRNA vaccination overcomes haemozoin-mediated impairment of whole-parasite malaria vaccines in mice – Link
  • Essential care package to address mental health and stigma for persons with neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • The Death to Onchocerciasis and Lymphatic Filariasis (DOLF) project: Accomplishments and ongoing research – Link