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

Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.

Many HIV vaccines and microbicides have failed clinical trials and HIV researchers say the field needs to get back to basics.

The WHO director-general on the first pandemic in four decades and the battle to get drugs and vaccines to the developing world.

Persuading Cambodian river-dwellers to use a newly designed floating toilet instead of the river could cut soaring diarrhoea rates.

A proposal for tackling dengue fever has caused controversy because it would involve releasing GM mosquitoes into the wild.

A tiny solar-powered microscope with no lens could be a cheap and disposable alternative for malaria diagnosis

Scientists are monitoring people at risk of catching diseases from animals, in the hope of preventing a pandemic

As tuberculosis strains that are resistant to all known drugs continue to emerge, scientists are trying new approaches to drug development.

Polio is still with us, and scientists are having to rethink vaccination strategies for developing countries in the hope of eradication.

A Danish company is proving that there is profit to be made in making products for the poor, including a 'straw' that makes water drinkable.

Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.

Rapid diagnostic tests potentially present a quick, easy-to-use solution for improved malaria diagnosis. But are they the way to go?

A mobile phone application called EpiSurveyor proved instrumental in monitoring and containing a polio outbreak in Kenya.

Trials of a vaccine to prevent nasopharyngeal cancer will start soon in China, where it mainly affects the Cantonese-speaking population.

A low-tech clay water filter is proving successful in Sri Lanka, cutting disease levels and saving on fuel costs.

Leading geneticist Samir Brahmachari explains why India should kickstart a new open source approach to drug discovery for diseases like TB.

Many factors are increasing antibiotic resistance, and authorities, doctors and patients all have a role in fighting it, writes Jia Hepeng.

Priya Shetty answers some common questions surrounding antibiotic resistance, and the dangers for the developing world.

Researchers in Zambia are trying to eradicate malaria in rural areas, reduce deaths and set an example in malaria control.