Vector Control

  • Improving onchocerciasis elimination surveillance: trials of odour baited Esperanza Window Traps to collect black fly vectors and real-time qPCR detection of Onchocerca volvulus in black fly pools – Link
  • Efficacy of attractive targeted sugar bait stations against malaria in Western Province Zambia: epidemiological findings from a two-arm cluster randomized phase III trial – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • New malaria test “listens” to cells to make diagnosis – Link
  • A pathway for skin NTD diagnostic development – Link

Data

  • Innovative technologies to address neglected tropical diseases in African settings with persistent sociopolitical instability – Link
  • Mathematical modeling study demonstrates gene drives could boost malaria control when added to intervention package – Link | Link to Paper

Drug and vaccine development

  • Breakthrough discovery could lead to novel malaria vaccines and therapies – Link | Link to Paper
  • Late-liver-stage malaria vaccine delivers 89% protection and boosts cellular immunity – Link | Link to Paper

Drug resistance

  • Parasite genome analysis provides a new approach to predicting malaria drug resistance – Link | Link to Paper
  • Africa’s race against time to stop malaria drug resistance – Link
  • First evidence of resistance to standard malaria treatment observed in African children – Link | Link to Paper

Immunisation

  • Message by the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO – September/October 2024 – Link
  • Sudan kicks off polio campaign to protect over 648 000 children in hard-to-reach areas in white Nile State – Link

Elimination progress

  • Malaria control program achieves 99% reduction in cases across Brazilian Amazon cities – Link

Climate and Health

  • COP29 outcomes fall short on climate health action – Link
  • New guidance launched for safe, climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable healthcare facilities – Link
  • Cop29: African health leaders call for new community-centered solutions to tackle worsening climate-related neglected tropical diseases. – Link
  • Impact of climate change on vaccine responses and inequity – Link
  • Five ways that climate change threatens human health – Link

Other

  • Africa CDC launches a continental blueprint to combat endemic and neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Hope and despair on Nigeria’s malaria frontline – Link
  • New tool reveals how malaria sticks to red blood vessels – Link | Link to Paper
  • Procedural legitimacy: co-developing a community agreement model for genetic approaches research to malaria control in Africa One Health – Link
  • Malaria: a VaccinesWork guide – Link
  • Three more polio cases reported from Pakistan – Link
  • Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed, Bill Gates discuss accelerating global development – Link  
  • Stopping severe malaria by harnessing natural human antibodies – Link | Link to Paper
  • Urban mosquito sparks malaria surge in East Africa – Link
  • New WHO regional strategy supports Indonesia’s mission to end NTDs by 2030 – Link
  • Emodepside: The anthelmintic’s mode of action and toxicity  – Link
  • Pakistan, Nigeria, Chad report more polio cases – Link