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On World AIDS Day, (December 1st, 2010) the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Peter Piot — formerly head of UNAIDS — speaks out in support of a push for a co-ordinated an

SWAZILAND— Globally, eighty per cent of all blindness is from ‘avoidable’ causes, according to researchers working with the “VISION 2020 Links” programme, which brings together

A new book about HIV/AIDS — released for World AIDS Day (1st December, 2010) by the aids2031 group — calls for a sustained strategic response to the global threat of AIDS rather than just crisis manag

There can be unexpected adverse effects from introducing healthy eating all over the world, according to a leading health economist writing in the medical journal the Lancet. Richard Smith from the Lo

ATLANTA—Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria promise to distinguish accurately — and at low cost — patients with fever caused by malaria so that the only patients to receive antimalarial treatment are t

LONDON—The potential danger of future epidemics and pandemics of influenza could be reduced thanks to an on-line survey being conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Ellen Bro

ATLANTA—The paramount importance of diagnostic testing was highlighted at a session on malaria held at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia (Nove

ATLANTA—A new map showing the distribution of the eye infection trachoma promises to help overcome this leading cause of blindness, according to a report at the American Society of Tropical Medicine &

The survey of dengue fever — being conducted in Sri Lanka by the Ministry of Health with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — provides much-needed data for fighting the disease, accord

The battle to stay ahead of malaria drug resistance is far from over, according to experts speaking at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (Novemb

Obesity is an environmental problem with fossil fuel energy use at its heart, according to Professor Ian Roberts of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who discusses data from his new

Surveillance of dengue infection among children in Sri Lanka is providing practical assistance to the global effort to combat this neglected — but nevertheless costly and potentially fatal — disease,