Communities make the difference: World AIDS Day 2019
For World AIDS Day, this blog highlights research registered at the ISRCTN registry that harnesses community power to help people living with… Read more »
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Pneumonia is a major threat to public health – why don’t we acknowledge the fact?
Today is the 10th anniversary of the World Pneumonia Day, which aims to increase awareness that pneumonia is a major global clinical and public health… Read more »
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Ensuring safe drinking water in Rohingya camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
A new study published in Gut Pathogens and supported by UNICEF, reveals high levels of contamination of source water from… Read more »
How can the plastic waste crises be solved in Africa?
There is the need for sustainable management of waste plastics in Africa. A new article published in Environmental Sciences Europe… Read more »
Four ways to address the heart disease-related outcomes of malaria
Malaria increases the risk of heart failure by 30%, meaning an increase in the burden of non-communicable diseases. Dr. Ifeanyi M.… Read more »
Eliminating vertical transmission of HIV: This last mile needs more than Antiretroviral Therapy
Worldwide 36.9 million people are living with HIV. Of these, 1.8 million are children. In this blog we look back across a new… Read more »
Too Hot to Handle: Loss of cytoplasmic incompatibility may hinder Wolbachia-centred disease control
A new study shows that rising temperatures can reduce Wolbachia infection in mosquitoes, loosening its control on their… Read more »
Drugs, Tayto CRISP[R]s and other parasite craic in Belfast
This year, the British Society for Parasitology Autumn Symposium was hosted by Queens University Belfast (QUB) in Northern… Read more »
Reduced prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiases worldwide: sustaining control to reap the benefits
Worldwide, an estimated 880 million children need treatment for soil-transmitted helminthiases. A new paper shows how implementing… Read more »
The relentless march of falciparum malaria (the deadly parasite) in India
The very recent decline in malaria cases caused by Plasmodium falciparum in India is good news but disease burden close to half a… Read more »