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Image of the Week: Pneumococcal vaccines in Kenya

  This week, our image of the week comes from work experience student Tallulah Tacchi and features a video from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Centre and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on the impact of the...

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Researcher Spotlight: Prof Abdisalan Noor

Professor Abdisalan Noor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-WTRP) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also a Visiting Professor at...

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Image of the Week: MMV’s Malaria Box

Earlier this month, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) won the Open Data Innovation Award, one of five open data awards presented by Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute. Their ‘Malaria Box’ contains...

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Breakthrough in the search for an Ebola Vaccine

The publication of positive results from the Ebola VSV-ZEBOV vaccine trial is being met with understandable excitement, but there is still important work that needs to be done. Charlie Weller oversees...

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How to conduct a clinical trial during a disease outbreak

A year after the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak to be a health emergency, new cases continue to emerge in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Oxford Professor of Global Health Research Trudie Lang is part of a...

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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Thumbi Ndung’u

Professor Thumbi Ndung’u is the Victor Daitz Chair in HIV/TB Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He works in the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV and...

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Antibiotic Awareness Week: Seven infections that are getting harder to treat

This week is the first ever global Antibiotic Awareness Week, which aims to increase understanding of how bacteria are evolving to beat our best drugs and what we can do about it. The Wellcome Trust...

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60 cents a year for every person on the planet would make us safer against...

As the world continues to learn difficult lessons from the Ebola crisis and the failures that occurred during the response, a landmark report published today spells out what must be done to increase...

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Drug-resistant infections: how worried should we be?

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland is taking place this week, from 20-23 January. Known simply as ‘Davos’, the meeting is an opportunity for business and political leaders...

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Zika virus outbreak in the Americas

The World Health Organisation (WHO) today declared the Zika virus outbreak in South and Central American a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). It is the first time since the Ebola...

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Taking action on Zika

The outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas and possible link to microcephaly has caused international concern, with the WHO declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Our Zika virus...

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Zika: Q&A with the infectious disease expert

Laura Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is studying mothers and babies affected by Zika virus in Brazil. Where are you at...

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What we need to find out about Zika and pregnancy

Researchers across the world are urgently studying the virus to understand more about its effects on unborn babies Until a few months ago, Zika virus had done little to attract attention since it first...

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Zika: Q&A with the climate expert

Madeleine Thomson directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Malaria Early Warning Systems and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth...

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Zika: Q&A with the medical anthropologist

Sharon Abramowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida What do you do? As a medical anthropologist in West Africa, I teach, research...

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