Data

  • Estimating the impact of the RTS, S/AS01 malaria vaccine in Benin: A mathematical modelling study – Link
  • Modelling approaches for predicting the distribution of skin NTDs: A systematic review – Link

AI and Innovations

  • Major new funding harnesses AI to combat infectious disease – Link

Drug and vaccine development

  • Researchers identify potential new route for antimalarial drug design – Link

Drug resistance

  • Cellular and molecular basis of PfCoronin function in artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum – Link
  • Malaria drug resistance more complex than previously understood, study finds – Link

Immunisation

  • In Nigeria, lessons from polio campaigns are helping protect children against other diseases – Link
  • Malaria vaccine averts 1 in 8 child deaths across three African countries in first rollout – Link | Link to paper
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan unite to protect millions of children in synchronized polio campaigns – Link
  • Timeliness of children’s vaccinations in 91 low-income and middle-income countries: an analysis of survey data – Link

Surveillance

  • Quantifying the role of contact sampling for poliovirus detection in Nigeria – Link

Elimination progress

  • Towards a stronger legal framework for ending neglected tropical diseases in Indonesia – Link  
  • The fight against malaria is bearing fruit in Burkina Faso – Link
  • Polio transition in the African Region: progress, challenges and prospects for health systems integration – Link
  • Saudi Arabia fuels polio eradication research with vital funding and leadership – Link

Climate and Health

  • The importance of recognizing opportunities in climate change impacts – Link
  • Climate change and infectious diseases: breaking the poverty-disease-environment trap – Link
  • Adapting to climate-related health risks: The economic case for climate services for health – Link

Other

  • Global-scale population genetic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum identifies region-specific patterns of malaria parasite adaptation – Link 
  • Plasmodium vivax malaria detected in Duffy-negative hosts – Link
  • Global health gains face threat of reversal – Link
  • From pilots to partnerships: Why African-Nordic collaboration can help reshape global health – Link
  • Temporal trends in African healthcare system capacities in prevention, detection, response, and sustainability between 2010 and 2023 – Link
  • Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid announces scheme to eradicate river blindness – Link 
  • Controlled human malaria infection in adults identify combinations of merozoite antigens associated with clinical immunity – Link
  • Methods for estimating the burden of acute tropical infectious diseases: A scoping review – Link
  • Strengthening cross-border coordination to address health threats in Africa – Link
  • Serendipitous detection of invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in Kisumu, Kenya in June 2022 – Link
  • Decoding cis-regulatory elements in the germline of the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae – Link
  • Africa: One visit, many lives saved – How to fight malaria smarter – Link