We read with great interest the Editorial recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases about the global control of dengue.1 In the Editorial, authors highlighted the effects of climate change and El Niño favouring the spread of this vector-born...
We read with great interest the Editorial recently published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases about the global control of dengue.1 In the Editorial, authors highlighted the effects of climate change and El Niño favouring the spread of this vector-born...
Loa loa, the African eye worm, is a filarial pathogen transmitted by blood-sucking flies of the genus Chrysops. Loiasis primarily affects rural populations residing in the forest and adjacent savannah regions of central and west Africa, where more than...
The high prevalence of piperaquine resistance markers in parasite populations of the Guianas, and the risk of associated therapeutic failures calls for caution on dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine use in the region. Furthermore, greater attention should b...
Malaria has seen a worrying resurgence across tropical regions, with cases and mortality rising after a 15-year decline earlier this century. The major impact falls on sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 593 000 deaths in 2021.1 Treatment of blood st...
“Tsogolo La Thanzi” is translated as ‘healthy futures’ in Chichewa, Malawi's most widely spoken language, and is the name of a study created in 2007 by Sara Yeatman and Jenny Trinitapoli. The study, commencing in 2009, is a longitudinal survey of young...
In Tore Godal and the evolution of global health, Conrad Keating describes how global health evolved over the last half century and the role Tore Godal played in this development. Godal began his research on leprosy at the Armauer Hansen Research Insti...
In his book The Reaper's Dance: 1000 Days of COVID, USA-based physician-scientist and author Ravi Iyer shares his experience with various aspects of COVID-19. He describes SARS-CoV-2 and its ability to endanger human lives across the world, for example...
From trapping bats in the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the reservoir of Marburg virus to treating patients with Ebola virus disease, Daniel Bausch's career might sound like a film plot. But Bausch, who describes himself as “a relatively ...
John Schieffelin, Associate Professor at Tulane University, LA, USA, reveals that he was fortunate to be exposed to public service at a young age. “My father was a general paediatrician who spent a lot of time working on injury prevention policies such...
Some people have unique stories about how they met their partner, but William (Billy) Fischer's is very hard to beat: he met his wife, a pharmacist, after needing emergency post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV following a needlestick injury. Since that ti...
A live forum of candidates for WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific took place on Sept 15, with infectious diseases a key priority. Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan reports.
The Scottish Early Estimation of Pandemic Influenza Antiviral and Vaccine Effectiveness (EAVE) platform was established in 2012 through funding from the National Institute for Health Research, alongside a portfolio of nine pandemic preparedness and res...
Schilling WHK, Jittamala P, Watson JA, et al. Antiviral efficacy of molnupiravir versus ritonavir-boosted nirmatrelvir in patients with early symptomatic COVID-19 (PLATCOV): an open-label, phase 2, randomised, controlled, adaptive trial. Lancet Infect ...
Non-timely reporting, selective reporting, or non-reporting of clinical trial results are prevalent and serious issues. WHO mandates that summary results be available in registries within 12 months of study completion and published in full text within ...
Non-timely reporting, selective reporting, or non-reporting of clinical trial results are prevalent and serious issues. WHO mandates that summary results be available in registries within 12 months of study completion and published in full text within ...