First chikungunya vaccine approved for persons as young as 12 years old, addressing an unmet need for chikungunya prevention ...
ShareThe campaign was electrifying and engaging. It was a day, precisely January 30, loaded with activities, all aimed at ...
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic served as a wake-up call. Since then, health experts worldwide have sat on tenterhooks, ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Anesvad Foundation (Bilbao, Spain) have signed a 2-year agreement valued at €1.4 million to support ...
The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...
Fluid, electrolyte and mineral perturbations are prevalent features of tropical disease. Hemodynamic alterations, fever, nitrogen wasting, and changes in membrane transport and acid–base balance ...
These maps show the average annual number of tropical cyclones through the Australian region in El Niño, La Niña and neutral years. Tropical cyclones are low pressure systems that form over warm ...
On World Neglected Tropical Disease Day 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO ... These include estimating intervention costs for the 2030 NTD road map targets; expanding online tools for capacity ...
Dignitaries present at the World NTD Day 2025 commemoration The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Representative, Dr. Frank Lule, has stated that Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain a ...
The dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in most tropical regions of Central and South America. It is known that when the number of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for this disease ...
This aligns with the programmatic targets outlined in the WHO Road Map 2021–2030 and the commitments of the 2022 Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases. NTDs can have devastating ...
A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with HIV has unearthed diagnosis "blank spots" in Africa, according to research ...