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Malaria-free Suriname offers hope for Amazon neighbours

Suriname, South America's smallest country, is covered almost entirely by rainforest, providing ideal conditions for malaria-transmitting mosquitoes.

10 Jul 2025

4 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Suriname is covered almost entirely covered by rainforest. Credit: David Evers

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Molecular view of a key component of the SARS-CoV-2 virus called MPro (Green Grey) with drug site targets identified (yellow). Non-profit COVID Moonshot will use artificial intelligence to develop oral antiviral drugs against COVID-19 and future pandemics. Copyright: Diamond Light Source, 2021

AI drives quest for new antivirals to fight outbreaks

2 Jun 2022

3 min read

Cross-posts Innovation COVID-19

Medical personnel at Trinity Care Foundation reading a poster about community outreach on Universal Health Coverage Day amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 in rural Karnataka, India. Scientists have warned that COVID-19 will remain uncontrolled in many countries unless coordinated action is taken. Copyright: Trinity Care Foundation, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

COVID-19 could derail SDGs for next five years – report

25 May 2022

3 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19 SDGs Videos

The fight against COVID-19: People waiting to be vaccinated fill up a hall at the Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility (APVAX) in Caloocan City, Philippines. Copyright: Asian Development Bank, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Time for vaccines for the ‘Big Three’

9 May 2022

3 min read

Tuberculosis Malaria HIV Vaccine development Cross-posts

Bnagladesh women queuing in Dhaka to receive emergency aid, disregarding social distance guidelines amid the pandemic. Copyright: Fahad Abdullah Kaizer / UN Women, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Women’s water burden rose as COVID lockdowns hit

5 May 2022

4 min read

Gender equality COVID-19 Cross-posts

The Pfizer vaccine vials in an acrylic tray. Global health leaders say that conversations about access for new mRNA vaccines should begin now. Copyright: Camosun College, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Q&A: Start talking about mRNA vaccine access now, say experts

3 May 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Malaria HIV

A child and its mother being tested for malaria in Mozambique. Scientists are researching the safety and efficacy of mRNA-based malaria vaccines. Copyright: Courtesy of Malaria Consortium.

Hunting the ‘perfect protein’ for malaria mRNA vaccine

25 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Malaria

Dr. Adenov, Kazakhstan's director of the National TB Program, with a patient. Researchers are pushing to capitalise on the success of mRNA technology against COVID-19 and are aiming to develop an mRNA vaccine to be used against TB. Copyright: USAID Central Asia, (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Can mRNA vaccine tech take on tuberculosis?

14 Apr 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts Tuberculosis Vaccine development

Researchers hypothesise that the black fungus epidemic in India was caused by burning cow dung. Copyright: Image by Randhir Kumar from Pixabay.

Cow dung fires linked to black fungus epidemic in India

6 Apr 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

A scientist working in the design and development lab of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative in 2011. Clinical trials for an mRNA vaccine against HIV have started Copyright: AIDSVaccine, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Cautious optimism for trials of mRNA-based HIV vaccine

31 Mar 2022

6 min read

Cross-posts HIV Vaccine development

A new study reports that a four-month-long childhood tuberculosis treatment works just as well as a six-month course. Copyright: J P Davidson (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Childhood TB course can be cut to four months

24 Mar 2022

4 min read

Tuberculosis

Women working in the advanced animal health laboratories of ILRI, in Nairobi, Kenya. Copyright: ILRI/David White, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Q&A: Science ‘needs to listen to African voices’

24 Feb 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

COVID healthcare costs ‘catastrophic’ for poorest

7 Jan 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Cross-posts

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