13 Nov 2024 – Below we feature a compilation of headlines, scientific articles, and technical reports on innovations, R&D and elimination progress towards polio, malaria, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis. We will be publishing these updates bi-weekly and hope they are useful.
Vector Control
- Efficacy of PermaNet® dual compared to Interceptor® G2 and PermaNet 3.0 in experimental huts in Siaya County, western Kenya – Link
Diagnostic testing and treatment
- Performance of ParaHIT® HRP2-based rapid diagnostic test and proportions of Plasmodium falciparum Histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Togo – Link
Data
- Malaria treatment for prevention: a modelling study of the impact of routine case management on malaria prevalence and burden – Link
Drug and vaccine development
- A highly immunogenic UVC inactivated Sabin based polio vaccine – Link
- New drug could help fight against treatment-resistant malaria – Link | Link to Paper
Drug resistance
- New study provides first evidence of African children with severe malaria experiencing partial resistance to world’s most powerful malaria drug – Link
- Insecticide resistance and population structure of the invasive malaria vector, Anopheles stephensi, from Fiq, Ethiopia – Link
Immunisation
- Sudan kicks off polio campaign to protect over 648,000 children in hard-to-reach areas in White Nile State – Link
- Five regions in Ethiopia conducted- Polio vaccination with nOPV2 vaccine to reach over 5.6 million children – Link
- Second round of polio campaign in Gaza completed amid ongoing conflict and attacks: UNICEF and WHO – Link
Surveillance
- Genetic surveillance shows spread of ACT resistance during period of malaria decline in Vietnam (2018-2020) – Link
Elimination progress
- Approaching onchocerciasis elimination in Equatorial Guinea: Near zero transmission and public health implication – Link
- Elimination of lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem in Timor-Leste – Link
Outbreak
- Global leaders undaunted in face of rising polio cases – Link
Climate and Health
- WHO demands urgent integration of health in climate negotiations ahead of COP29 – Link
- 2024 Lancet report on climate change reveals record-breaking health threats associated with climate inaction – Link
Other
- New partnership to improve child health in Asia-Pacific – Link
- Onchocerciasis: Invasion of Deep Organs by Onchocerca Volvulus – Link
- Ambitions and realities: Are Global Fund investments designed to achieve resilient and sustainable systems for health? Findings from the Global Fund Prospective Country Evaluation – Link
- Global burden associated with rare infectious diseases of poverty in 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 – Link
- Innovating to address neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – Lin
- Mapping lymphatic filariasis morbidities in 24 endemic districts of Ethiopia through the health extension program – Link
- Use of digital assessment tools to measure health facility readiness to provide the WHO recommended package of care for lymphatic filariasis morbidity – Link
- Vector-borne diseases on Borneo island: a scoping review – Link
- Zimbabwe: Community Health Workers Lead Zim’s Fight Against Malaria – Link
- Cost of treating severe malaria in children in Africa: a systematic literature review – Link
- Cameroonian blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) harbour a plethora of (RNA) viruses – Link
- Examining malaria treatment and prevention spending efficiency in malaria-endemic countries, 2000–2020 – Link
- Lessons for co-producing research with affected communities – Link
- Belize strengthens commitment to malaria-free future with intensive training for laboratory personnel – Link
- 18th meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases – Link
- Malaria Day in the Americas: PAHO calls on expanded access to diagnosis and treatment – Link
- Schistosome and malaria exposure and urban–rural differences in vaccine responses in Uganda: a causal mediation analysis using data from three linked randomised controlled trials – Link
