Vector Control

  • Adaptive intervention strategies for malaria vector control in western Kenya: a cluster, sequential, multiple-assignment, randomised, open-label trial – Link
  • Malaria incidence rose following the introduction of neonicotinoid-based IRS in selected districts in northern Ghana: An observational analysis – Link

Diagnostic testing and treatment

  • A better treatment for river blindness is available, but its rollout is complicated – Link
  • The future of diagnostics in Africa – Link
  • Advancing climate services for health: New milestones from the WHO–WMO accelerator – Link
  • Ivermectin to control malaria — a cluster-randomized trial – Link

Data

  • Modeling the impact of community information dissemination on the transmission dynamics of lymphatic filariasis – Link
  • Association of climate variables with Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases in Mandoto, Madagascar: A Statistical modeling study – Link

AI and Innovations

  • Artificial intelligence to support cross-disciplinary climate change research – Link
  • The use of artificial intelligence based modelling techniques in One Health-related infectious disease studies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review – Link
  • Artificial intelligence and public health data in emergencies: A critical issue in the middle East – Link

Drug resistance

  • National genomic profiling of Plasmodium falciparum antimalarial resistance in Zambian children participating in the 2018 malaria indicator survey – Link 
  • Experimental hut evaluation of mosquito shield, a transfluthrin spatial emanator, for control of wild pyrethroid resistant malaria vectors in Benin – Link

Immunisation

  • Sub-national immunization days: Cameroon steps up efforts to protect every child against polio  – Link
  • Where trust turns into protection: The school at the heart of Malawi’s polio breakthrough – Link 
  • Malaria vaccines scale up in Africa amid new threats – Link
  • From vaccine scepticism to acceptance – Link
  • Malaria vaccines are working. We cannot afford to lose momentum – Link
  • Largest catch-up initiative delivers over 100 million childhood vaccinations – Link
  • For every generation, vaccines work – but progress must be protected in the Western Pacific – Link
  • Village health workers close the immunization gap in Lesotho – Link 
  • Vaccines mean malaria deaths should be falling — not rising – Link
  • Zambia launches a nationwide polio vaccination campaign to protect every child under five – Link 
  • Going the distance: House-to-house mobilizers sustain progress on malaria vaccine rollout in Nigeria – Link 
  • Towards Immunization Agenda 2030 targets: Two decades of immunization efforts in the WHO African Region – Link 

Surveillance

  • Progress and challenges in development of minimum essential dataset for disease surveillance through a One Health lens: a scoping review – Link
  • Africa: World Malaria Day – Why stronger surveillance is the key to the future of malaria control – Link
  • Community-led standards for global wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance – Link
  • Safeguarding Mongolia’s polio-free future: WHO initiates review of acute flaccid paralysis surveillance in a changing global risk environment – Link
  • Strengthening early warning systems to detect health emergencies in Yemen – Link
  • Belize boosts malaria detection tenfold as it strengthens post-elimination surveillance – Link
  • Integrated post-validation and post-verification surveillance planning toolkit for neglected tropical diseases: a planning toolkit – Link

Elimination progress

  • Sustaining a Polio-free World – Link
  • “Driven to end malaria”: Ten years of success for Sri Lanka – Link
  • Malaria in Angola: Now we can. Now we must! – Link
  • West Africa: Ecowas charts regional plan to eliminate malaria by 2050 – Link
  • WHO urges partners to prevent malaria resurgence in Pakistan and end malaria in our lifetime – Link
  • Unite against malaria: challenges and achievements in malaria control around the globe – Link
  • Crossing the last mile: Cambodia’s journey towards malaria elimination – Link
  • Now We Can, Now We Must: Viet Nam’s last mile in the fight to eliminate malaria – Link 

Outbreak

  • Practicing today for tomorrow’s emergencies – WHO convenes countries and partners to simulate response to major disease outbreak – Link
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for responding to a poliovirus event/outbreak (v5)  – Link

Climate and Health

  • Advancing climate services for health: New milestones from the WHO–WMO accelerator – Link
  • Staying inspired about climate action – Link
  • The 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: narrowing window for decisive health action – Link
  • Health and climate change at the 79th World Health Assembly – Link
  • Addressing climate change impacts on vector-borne infectious diseases: Can artificial intelligence help? – Link

Other

  • Molecular characterization and transmission indices of malaria vector in a rural community in Osun State south-west Nigeria  – Link
  • Impact of mass drug administration with Ivermectin, Diethylcarbamazine, and Albendazole in elimination of lymphatic filariasis in five districts of Nepal – Link 
  • Africa CDC launches African high-level ministerial committee to shape global health architecture reform – Link
  • Plasmodium uses its own PI3K to suppress eat-me signal and evade host immune clearance – Link 
  • Further, faster, stronger to zero: How integrating health services is closing the gap on polio – Link
  • Malaria funding crisis and drug resistance compel African investment – Link 
  • New chapter for Africa’s malaria response through accountability and sovereignty – Link
  • Protective immunity against malaria by a nanoparticle CIS43-based junctional vaccine alone or in combination with R21 – Link 
  • Accelerating action to end malaria: A test of Africa’s health security and sovereignty – Link
  • World Malaria Day 2026: Message from Shenaaz El-Halabi, WHO representative in South Africa – Link
  • We are worried’: Malaria mounts a comeback after slashed US funding – Link
  • Global Fund launches regional malaria grant for Southern Africa, bolsters response to rising risk from extreme weather events in Mozambique – Link
  • Africa: Strengthening malaria prevention efforts in the Sahel #WorldMalariaDay  – Link
  • Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa – Link
  • Cutting edge reviews: Battling one Neglected Tropical Disease after another – Link 
  • Severe malaria may affect children’s cognitive abilities more than a decade later – Link
  • Can you stop malaria crossing borders? One nation’s bid to wipe out the disease – Link
  • Beyond 2030: The future of Sustainable Development Goals will be decided at the last mile – Link
  • Integrated malaria service delivery and its determinants among pregnant women in Ethiopia: Multi level analysis of 2021/22 National Service Provision Assessment Survey – Link
  • Funding cuts challenge malaria vaccination initiatives – Link
  • Impacts of seasonal mass drug administration in school-aged children on chronic malaria infections in Burkina Faso – Link
  • Malawi Hosts Africa’s meeting on Neglected Tropical Diseases #NTDs – Link