Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.

India urgently needs a permanent dengue surveillance system, say N. Sivagnaname and colleagues.

Contrary to oft-repeated claims, climate change is unlikely to cause a major rise in malaria, says medical entomologist Paul Reiter.

Quickly detecting, not predicting, malaria epidemics is the key to disease control, says tropical medicine expert, Jonathan Cox.

We must prepare for climate change bringing more natural disasters that favour mosquito-borne disease, says Jai P. Narain from the WHO.

Policies to combat malaria are needed regardless of climate change, which has a far smaller impact on the disease than human activity.