Vector Control

  • The origin, history, and resistance architecture of an invasive urban malaria mosquito in Africa – Link
  • Malaria should worry us more than genetically modified mosquitoes – Link
  • Beyond bread and beer: Alluring yeast species could yield new mosquito traps to combat malaria – Link
  • Global analysis exposes wide regional disparities in insecticide-treated net performance – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • GD03 Improving access to diagnosis and treatment of cutaneous neglected tropical diseases: a global health perspective – Link
  • A rapid immunochromatographic test for antibody detection as a new tool for monitoring malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax – Link
  • Intelligent automation cognitive system for accurate malaria diagnosis using digital blood smears – Link

Data

  • Machine learning-enhanced nano-QSAR and multiscale modeling for predictive nanomedicine: applications in herbal therapeutics and neglected tropical diseases – Link

AI and Innovations

  • Performance and clinical utility of image-based machine learning models for the diagnosis of neglected tropical diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review – Link
  • A scoping review of traditional and artificial intelligence methods in malaria diagnostics – Link

Drug and vaccine development

  • MIT researchers develop new vaccine adjuvant that could make it easier to eradicate polio – Link
  • Advances in the development of malaria vaccines – Link

Drug resistance

  • Uganda: The Private Sector – a Critical Factor in Uganda’s Response to Antimalarial Drug Resistance – Link

Immunisation

  • For every generation, vaccines work – Link
  • Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil – Link 

Surveillance

  • Utility of antifilarial antibodies for post-validation surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Tonga – Link 
  • Multi-pathogen serosurveillance in Tonga examining demographic correlates and geographic clustering of 17 pathogens – Link

Elimination progress

  • GLIDE and WHO partner to accelerate disease elimination across the Eastern Mediterranean Region – Link
  • Bihar achieves historic first in lymphatic filariasis elimination – Link
  • Sustaining a Polio-free World: charting the course from strategy to action – Link

Outbreak

  • A new malaria mosquito is causing outbreaks in African cites. Here’s where it came from – Link
  • CDC updates guidance for investigation of locally-acquired malaria in the US – Link

Climate and Health

  • New research explores the need for a credibility framework to ensure a comprehensive approach to achieving climate goals – Link
  • Reframing risk assessment for malaria elimination in a changing climate – Link
  • Tropical ocean temperatures drive changes in malaria cases in Malawi – Link | Link to Paper

Other

  • Countries pave the way for stronger local production and health sovereignty – Link
  • Scientists solve decades-old mystery of how malaria parasites invade human cells – Link
  • MMV’s annual report 2025 – Link
  • Global Polio Eradication Initiative High-Level Interview: WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus – Link
  • Guiding principles for prioritizing malaria interventions in resource-constrained country contexts to achieve maximum impact, 2nd ed. – Link
  • From village tragedy to global science leadership – Link
  • The greatest disease we must eradicate first is misinformation – Link
  • 12th edition, Epidemiological Bulletin WHO Health Emergencies Programme WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia‎, 17 June 2026. Reporting period: 1-15 June 2026 – Link
  • Treating elephantiasis cuts HIV risk in Tanzania – Link