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Roundup of articles and publications on the latest innovations in malaria, polio, lymphatic filariasis, and onchocerciasis
13 February 2023 – 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.
Diagnostic testing and treatment
- RAT-style test to expose malaria that hides in your body – Link
- Infectious Malaria Sporozoites produced without mosquitoes provide ground-breaking progress for malaria vaccines and biology research – Link | Link to Paper
Drug and vaccine development
- Infectious Malaria Sporozoites produced without mosquitoes provide ground-breaking progress for malaria vaccines and biology research – Link | Link to Paper
Drug resistance
- Southeast Asia warned of insecticide-resistant dengue mosquitoes – Link
Immunisation
- Children under 5 must get polio vaccine in every campaign: WHO – Link
Surveillance
- Freak infection with an eradicated form of polio shows virus’ craftiness – Link
Elimination progress
- Eight countries eliminated a neglected tropical disease in 2022 – Link
- Global health leaders urge world to be razor-sharp in focus to finish polio once and for all – Link
- Carter Center congratulates Nigeria for interrupting River Blindness in several states – Link
- Eliminating neglected diseases in Africa: there are good reasons for hope – Link
Outbreak
- WHO EMRO Weekly Epidemiological Monitor: Volume 16; Issue no 01; 01 January 2023 – Link
Climate and Health
- How climate change is spreading malaria in Africa – Link
- New digital tool helps prepare for malaria outbreaks in southern Africa – Link
Other
- Goodbye Malaria Receive US$24 Million Grant From The Global Fund To Fight Malaria In South Africa, Eswatini And Mozambique – Link
- Anti-merozoite antibodies induce natural killer cell effector function and are associated with immunity against malaria – Link
- MOSASWA grant against malaria in Mozambique, South Africa and Essuatíni – Link
- Member States guide direction of polio transition post-2023 – Link
- An insight to better understanding cross border malaria in Saudi Arabia – Link
- Leveraging innovation technologies to respond to malaria: a systematized literature review of emerging technologies – Link
- Malaria and the incidence of COVID-19 in Africa: an ecological study – Link
- Statement of the thirty-fourth Polio IHR Emergency Committee – Link
- Malaria — Epidemiology, Treatment, and Prevention – Link
- Mozambique: Over a million children to be medicated against malaria in Nampula – Link
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