Vector Control

  • AI-based tool aims to improve mosquito identification for disease control – Link
  • Identifying gaps in protection from malaria vector biting in rural Cambodia using an entomological assessment and human behaviour observations – Link
  • Microbiota isolate collections: A key to global vector-borne disease control – Link
  • The launch of the Pacific vector network: connecting Pacific Island Countries and areas to prevent and control vector-borne diseases – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • Time to consider doxycycline in the standard treatment of lymphatic filariasis? Emerging evidence on use of doxycycline as an adjunct to hygiene protocols – Link

Data

  • Nutritional predictors of lymphatic filariasis progression: Insights from a machine learning approach – Link
  • Medicines for Malaria Venture and Deepmirror join forces to adapt machine-learning platform for global health research – Link 
  • Model-Based Geostatistical Mapping of the Prevalence of Onchocerca volvulus in Cameroon between 1971 and 2020 – Link

Drug and vaccine development

  • Production of an immunogenic trivalent poliovirus virus-like particle vaccine candidate in yeast using controlled fermentation – Link

Immunisation

  • Burundi introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization – Link

Surveillance

  • Xenomonitoring as an epidemiological tool supporting post-stop surveillance of albendazole-ivermectin mass drug distribution in the Bougouni-Yanfolila evaluation unit, Sikasso, Mali, in 2023 – Link

Elimination progress

  • Brazil was certified by the World Health Organization for having eliminated lymphatic filariasis: what now? – Link
  • Highlights from the Global Malaria Programme: Annual Report 2024 – Link
  • 11th Anniversary: South-East Asia Polio-free certification (2025) – Link
  • Global burden of malaria before and after the COVID-19 pandemic based on the global burden of disease study 2021 – Link

Outbreak

  • WHO EMR Polio Bulletin Issue No. 1380, Week 11 – Link

Climate and Health

  • From the tropics to temperate zones: how climate change is redefining mosquito range – Link

Other

  • Microplanning improves stakeholders’ perceived capacity and engagement to implement lymphatic filariasis mass drug administration – Link
  • Current developments in malaria vaccination: A concise review on implementation, challenges, and future directions – Link
  • Revisiting the Loa loa microfilaremia thresholds above which serious adverse events may occur with ivermectin treatment – Link
  • Recognising the neurological burden of onchocerciasis: the need to include onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy in onchocerciasis global health metrics – Link
  • A unified call for One Health: Driving implementation, science, policy and investment for global impact – Link 
  • Inequities and factors associated with gender and disability in NTD-endemic communities in Benin and Côte d’Ivoire: An intersectional approach to interventions – Link
  • Second global meeting on skin NTDs focuses on advancing integration and innovation – Link
  • Acceptance of a malaria vaccine among caregivers of sick children under 5 years of age in Burundi – Link
  • Early evening outdoor biting by malaria-infected Anopheles arabiensis vectors threatens malaria elimination efforts in Zanzibar – Link
  • Novel treatments offer hope for neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Bionomics and distribution of malaria vectors in Kisumu city, Western Kenya: implications for urban malaria transmission – Link
  • A call for health R&D prioritisation and governance mechanisms in Africa – Link