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PHILADELPHIA—Pharmaco-vigilance was being urged here — as a key part of the strategy to improve malaria control in Africa and elsewhere — in a special session devoted to malaria drug safety at the Ame

PHILADELPHIA—Scientists in Cambodia are staying one step ahead of the malaria parasite with a simple method of co-ordinating case reports using mobile phones. Dr Jonathan Cox of the London School of H

PHILADELPHIA—Scientists in the UK and Uganda have now completed a three year study showing that young children are at continued risk of intestinal schistosomiasis — also known as bilharzia — between t

PHILADELPHIA—Research findings on gene changes enabling malaria parasites to resist anti-malarial drugs were discussed at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Philadelphia.

LONDON—A new laboratory technique is making it possible to analyse many gene processes simultaneously, bringing hope that trypanosomiasis — also known as sleeping sickness — will soon be understood su

PHILADELPHIA—The recently-introduced rapid diagnostic test kits for malaria are saving lives — and not just among patients with malaria. In research for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Me

LONDON—The ‘Welfare State’ can be sustained globally — even in the rapidly ageing societies of low- and middle-income countries. Social protection should not be delayed until a country is

LONDON—A massive new study of HIV/AIDS could help turn the tide of the epidemic globally. The PopART study — of 24 communities in Zambia and South Africa — is testing a powerful combination of approac

PHILADELPHIA—How populations of mosquitoes become insensitive to insect repellents has been researched by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with Rot

LONDON—The extent to which people infected with HIV are marginalised has been highlighted by a report from the Sigma Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looking at bla

MOSHI, TANZANIA—New insecticides being tested in Tanzania promise to overcome the biggest threat to malaria control in Africa: the mosquito’s resistance to pyrethroid insecticides. Professor Fra

PHILADELPHIA, USA—The world is on track for eliminating malaria, according to scientists attending the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual conference. The need to identify “