Vector Control

  • Microclimates, land cover, and socioeconomic vulnerability shape Anopheles hotspots in Maryland, USA – Link
  • Disparities in long-lasting insecticidal bed net usage and malaria burden 2 years after a mass distribution campaign in central Côte d’Ivoire: A cross-sectional survey prior to a cluster randomised trial – Link
  • Gene drives tested against real-world malaria diversity – Link 

Data

  • New dashboard helps predict and plan for disease outbreaks – Link

AI and Innovations

  • AI use in research and the need for continued guidance – Link
  • WPI-led study finds AI model can predict and help contain disease outbreaks in confined spaces – Link | Link to Paper
  • AI-Driven disease surveillance and outbreak response: A transparent informatics framework for resource-limited healthcare systems – Link
  • How AI is reshaping global preparedness for infectious disease – Link
  • Gates and OpenAI Team up to pilot AI solutions to African healthcare problems – Link

Drug resistance

  • Treatment failure and post-artesunate delayed haemolysis in a returned traveller from Uganda with partially drug-resistant severe plasmodium falciparum malaria – Link 

Immunisation

  • Over 26 million Children Reached with the Recent Integrated polio vaccination campaign – Link
  • The Impact of integration: Vaccinating 100M+ children in Nigeria – Link
  • Rotary funds WHO to support Pakistan in protecting 27 million children against polio in high-risk districts – Link
  • Over 100,00 children immunised in ENB – Link

Surveillance

  • Barriers and facilitators to implementing post-validation surveillance of lymphatic filariasis in Pacific Island countries and territories: A conceptual framework developed from qualitative data – Link

Elimination progress

  • How can technology accelerate Costa Rica’s path to malaria elimination? – Link 
  • World NTD Day: Together, we’re ending neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Researchers are getting closer to outsmarting the world’s deadliest parasite – Link
  • MDA campaign launched in four districts to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis – Link
  • Eliminating human African trypanosomiasis: lessons from Kenya – Link
  • Making progress on global health will need high-quality evidence – Link

Climate and Health

  • Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa – Link
  • How Rwanda is preparing its health system for the climate crisis – Link
  • Climatic and governance determinants of malaria transmission in Rivers State, Nigeria – Link

Other

  • GSK to support the END Fund in drive to eliminate neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Fighting lymphatic filariasis in Madagascar: Lives transformed and hope restored – Link
  • Why India still carries the heaviest burden of neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Communities unite to address stigma and discrimination affecting people with neglected tropical diseases – Link
  • Neglected tropical diseases: the need for an integrated approach to achieve the 2030 roadmap – Link
  • Ending neglected diseases requires partners willing to go where markets won’t – Link
  • World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day 2026: “These diseases are not just numbers—they represent people and communities who must not be left behind.” – Link
  • World NTD spotlight: Dr Monique Wasunna – Link
  • Improving lives of people affected by lymphatic filariasis in Kenya – Link
  • Incorporating lived experience of neglected tropical diseases strengthens health research – Link
  • Confronting neglected tropical diseases: a moral and strategic imperative for global equity – Link
  • Alwaleed Philanthropies (Global) continues its long-standing commitment with US$15 million for global polio eradication efforts – Link
  • The importance of values in a community-based response to malaria in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Results from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study – Link | Link to Paper
  • Towards an international research agenda for public health advocacy: Practice, preparedness and knowledge gaps – Link
  • Measuring co-design in global health research: methodological challenges and decolonial innovations – Link
  • Double recombinant nOPV2 vaccine – Link
  • Experts call for rethink of global sustainable development agenda as 2030 deadline looms – Link | Link to Paper
  • Rebalancing risk and responsibility under the America First Global Health Strategy – Link