Vector Control
  • Review of Selected Mosquito-Borne Diseases: Arboviruses (Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, West Nile, Japanese Encephalitis, Yellow Fever) and Parasitic Diseases (Malaria, Lymphatic Filariasis) – Link
  • Gene-drive-capable mosquitoes suppress patient-derived malaria in Tanzania – Link
  • Genetically engineered mosquitoes block development of circulating malaria strains – Link 
  • Strengthening vector control capacity: training of trainers on WHO susceptibility bioassays for mosquito vectors – Link
Diagnostic testing and treatment
  • In vitro macrofilaricidal and microfilaricidal activities against Onchocerca ochengi, cytotoxicity and acute toxicity of  seventeen thiazolidinone derivatives – Link
  • New antimalarial drug candidate shows potential for fighting resistance and reducing malaria transmission – Link
Data
  • Spatial analysis of malaria incidence and environmental determinants in Hadiya Zone, Ethiopia – Link
  • Modelling infectious diseases: SEIR-SEI compartmental model on malaria – Link
AI and Innovations
  • Scoping review of artificial intelligence via mobile technology and social media for health in Africa – Link
  • Artificial intelligence for health security in Africa: Benefits, risks and opportunities – Link
Drug and vaccine development
  • Multistage malaria vaccine candidate addresses both infection and transmission – Link
Drug resistance
  • New ‘early warning’ system could predict insecticide resistance in mosquitoes – Link | Link to Paper 
  • New tools saved a million lives from malaria last year but progress under threat as drug resistance rises – Link
Immunisation
  • Multistage malaria vaccine shows strong protection in African adults – Link
  • The future looks bright for malaria prevention – Link
  • MSF: Ethiopia’s first R21 malaria vaccine rollout, a global first in a refugee camp – Link
  • Pakistan launches final nationwide polio drive for 2025 amid rise in global cases – Link 
Surveillance
  • Building a tool to assess malaria surveillance and response capacity in malaria post-elimination contexts: a modified and dual-weighted Delphi approach – Link
  • Integrating forest data and health facility surveys to optimise risk-based malaria surveillance in the Philippines – Link
  • Key findings and recommendations from assessment of Cambodia’s national malaria surveillance system – Link
Elimination progress
  • Modern tools, enduring fight: The push to eliminate river blindness – Link
  • Rebound in prevalence and intensity of Onchocerca volvulus infection five years after
  • cessation of alternative treatment strategies in the Massangam Health District, West Region, Cameroon: need for coordinated and sustained efforts – Link
  • Reaching elimination of onchocerciasis transmission with long-term vector control and ivermectin treatment in Togo – Link
  • The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine in a Pittsburgh lab – Link
  • Why Abu Dhabi’s polio eradication pledge shows the power of regional leadership – Link
  • Why the polio eradication pledge in Abu Dhabi should fill us all with optimism – Link
  • World malaria report 2025 – Link
  • 2025 – A Year that tested us and prepared us to finish the job – Link
Climate and Health
  • Opinion: Health at the crossroads — a call to action for global leaders – Link
  • Africa’s climate leadership and health resilience: insights from the 2nd Africa Climate Summit, Addis Ababa, 2025 – Link
  • Resilience by design: Strengthening health and human development in a changing climate – Link
Other
  • World health official: UAE polio fundraiser comes at pivotal moment in eradication efforts – Link
  • Progress and gaps in poliovirus immunity: Evidence from a serological survey of children aged 6-23 months in high-risk districts of Pakistan – Link
  • IFN-γ and IL-4 correlate with protection induced by an attenuated malaria vaccine – Link
  • Why NTDs are a prime investment for philanthropy – Link | Link to Paper 
  • Equitable access to essential medicines to treat neglected tropical diseases: Latest developments from the World Health Organization (WHO) A cold-chain free loop-mediated isothermal amplification test for detection of human malaria in point-of-care settings – Link
  • Belgium and WHO sign new agreement to boost global equitable access to health products and technologies – Link
  • WHO launches the Traditional Medicine Global Library – Link
  • A Plasmodium-derived nanoparticle vaccine elicits sterile protection against malaria in mice – Link
  • Diethylcarbamazine elicits calcium signals by activation of Brugia malayi TRP-2b channels heterologously expressed in HEK293 cells – Link
  • Disentangling the roles of different vector species during a malaria resurgence in Eastern Uganda – Link
  • Seasonal dynamics and species diversity of Anopheles mosquitoes in malaria endemic districts of Southern Odisha India – Link
  • Seychelles strengthens fight against tropical and vector-borne diseases – Link
  • First FETP vector-control cohort graduates in Egypt – Link 
  • An actionable roadmap for NTD morbidity, disability, and disfigurement management – Link
  • Global Leaders pledge US$ 1.9 billion in Abu Dhabi to End Polio and protect children worldwide – Link
  • Resurgence of malaria in protected and rural areas after successful control program in a Brazilian Amazon municipality – Link
  • Bill Gates renews call to eradicate polio and malaria with UAE as key partner – Link
  • Economic evaluations of community health worker programs focussed on neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries (2015–2024): A scoping literature review – Link
  • 7 things you need to know about the state of malaria today – Link
  • Gavi and Global Polio Eradication Initiative Boards convene for second joint session – Link
  • A new era dawns for Gavi, as Board underlines strategic shift towards country ownership and increased support for the most vulnerable – Link
  • Carter & Al Nahyan: The friendship formed to eradicate neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • African footballers star in Kick Out Polio campaign ahead of AFCON 2025 – Link
  • Malaria pigment hemozoin drives M1 pro-inflammatory macrophage polarization in vitro – Link
  • Protecting communities to eliminate lymphatic filariasis in Kenya – Link
  • Molecular investigation of Plasmodium spp. in Sierra Leone: recommendations on diagnostic methods for malaria control in high-epidemic regions – a nationally representative cross-sectional epidemiological survey – Link
  • Integrating social and behavior change communication into mass drug administration campaigns for neglected tropical diseases: insights and best practices from Jimma, Ethiopia – Link
  • Three decades of community health workers in primary healthcare delivery in Rwanda: evolution, impact and policy lessons – Link
  • Reimagining global health architecture: the way forward to ensure global health security – Link
  • Loiasis: a very neglected disease in Central Africa – Link