At this point in the year, we’re all quite familiar with the sounds of summer: the breeze through the trees, the birdsong, the chatter of children playing outside – and the persistent buzz of a ...

For the first time in 10 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has published new policy guidance on malaria elimination. It provides countries with a set of tools and strategies for achieving and ...

The Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016–2030 sets the most ambitious targets for malaria since the eradication era, namely to eliminate malaria from at least 35 countries and reduce case ...

Measles and rubella are major vaccine-preventable causes of child mortality and disability. They have been eliminated from the Americas and some other regions have also come close to elimination. In ...

In an effort to establish universally accepted best practices for protecting patients undergoing hemodialysis, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has ...

Pretoria, 07 December 2012 -- Print, radio and television Journalists from seven priority Anglophone countries attended the WHO African Region’s media training on Neglected Tropical Diseases held in ...

Since 2000, there has been a 42% reduction in malaria mortality rates globally, and a 49% decline in the WHO African Region. This progress has led many malaria-endemic countries, even those with ...

Malaria control and elimination efforts combine preventive chemotherapies, vector management, surveillance and targeted treatment to interrupt transmission and reduce disease burden. Core ...

Control of syphilis is a key component of Peru’s national strategy and activities to control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Compared to other countries ...