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Missing TB cases ‘key to elimination’

With investment in new technologies to diagnose missing cases, TB can be eliminated, say disease experts.

28 Mar 2024

5 min read

The GeneXpert machines in Brazzaville, Congo analyses around 70 samples every day to detect TB. Many people with the disease, which is particularly prevalent in the Asia Pacific region and Africa, do not even get properly diagnosed. Copyright: WHO/OLUSIMI Vijay.

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Doctor looking at an x-ray picture of lungs. Credit: Anna Shvets on Pexels

Algorithm could hold key to child TB diagnosis

28 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Innovation

A man returning home with his family's allocation of long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets. The World Health Organization has updated its malaria policy guidelines, recommending the use of nets treated with a combination of insecticides. Credit: Debbie Gueye, USAID on Pixnio

WHO clears combination malaria nets to dodge resistance

23 Mar 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Cambodian health authorities have confirmed that there is no human-to-human transmission of bird flu following news of a man and his daughter getting infected. Copyright: Lorrie Graham/AusAID. (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

No ‘human-to-human infection’ of bird flu in Cambodia

6 Mar 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Bird flu Pandemic preparedness

Gabriela Montenegro Bethancourt is one of seven women scientists to win the 2023 Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World by UNESCO's Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and the Elsevier Foundation.

Q&A: Local context is key to nourishing children, says specialist

2 Mar 2023

7 min read

Cross-posts Explainer Research summary

A plastic surgery student being observed by a lecturer in Brazil. According to Mexican physicist Ana María Cetto, the Latin American region should rise up and support initiatives that make science and its results accessible to the general public. Copyright: ReSurge International, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Q&A: Science is a public good, not a business

14 Feb 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts

An obstetrician performs a mock vaginal examination on a fetal skull model in the lab using the smart glove, worn under a surgical glove. Credit: Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)

Saving babies with a US$1 smart glove

8 Feb 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts Innovation

Researchers from low- and lower-middle-income countries will now be able to publish for free in Nature. Credit: nature.com

Nature article charges waived for global South authors

6 Feb 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts

A female anopheles mosquito. A study says machine learning techniques to predict the age of mosquitoes from different populations could reduce turnaround time for malaria research. Credit: James Gathany, USCDCP on Pixnio, (CC0 1.0)

AI tool ‘98 per cent correct’ to predict mosquitoes’ age

25 Jan 2023

4 min read

Cross-posts Innovation Malaria

A laboratory technician performs HIV viral load (VL) tests at a molecular biology laboratory in Maputo province, Mozambique. Credit: Ricardo Franco/CDC, CC BY 2.0

Q&A: Africa’s new order for achieving health security

13 Jan 2023

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 Innovation

Polio vaccination campaign in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria in 2019. Conflicts such as those in north eastern Nigeria can hinder immunisation efforts. Credit: Rotary International

The peril of polio control in shadow of war

22 Dec 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Polio Conflict & humanitarian

A man holding his smartphone. Credit: Anaya Katlego on Unsplash

Smartphone operated tool uses light beam to detect malaria

19 Dec 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Maternal care in Hargeisa, Somalia. Despite progress on women’s health and rights in the last 50 years, stark inequalities remain in access to contraceptives and health services to support safe pregnancy and birth, a special report says. Credit: Sarah Bones/CARE. (CC BY 2.0).

Drugs companies must address ‘chronic neglect’ of women

15 Dec 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Gender equality Market shaping

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