Out of Africa – The new origin story for Malaria
New sampling and sequencing of malaria parasite from apes and monkeys is re-writing the phylogeny and origin story of one of humankinds most deadly… Read more »
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Are African governments in the driver’s seat when it comes to health financing policymaking?
A review published today in Global Health Research and Policy explores whether governments have ownership of the policy making process in health… Read more »
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Decline in malaria funding may put malaria elimination efforts at risk
Rima Shretta and her colleagues, recently published their findings on how the recent decline in funding could impact malaria… Read more »
Healthy child, healthy future: Highlights from RCPCH conference 2017
BMC Pediatrics had the pleasure of attending the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) annual conference which… Read more »
Mosquitoes and the biocontrol agent Wolbachia
Facilitated by increasing global mobility, urbanisation, climate change, and the development of insecticide resistance,… Read more »
2017 VectorBiTE Research Coordination Network Meeting in Silwood
Vector biologists, modellers and ecoinformaticians convene for the second annual meeting of Vector Behaviour in Transmission… Read more »
Increases in schistosomiasis linked with ecological impacts of dams
Dams block the migration of river prawns that eat snails which are intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis
Protecting the next generation from Hepatitis B
Today, the 28th of July, is World Hepatitis Day and this year’s theme is 'Eliminate Hepatitis’. One critical aspect of the… Read more »
Simple and affordable devices to tell if a pill is fake
In a recent article in the Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, researchers use devices based on a… Read more »
Cleaning up a public health threat – the River Ganges
India's Ganges river is one of the world's most polluted bodies of water. A promise to clean India's holiest river was made by… Read more »