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Polio vaccination, Bangladesh

Focus on Disability: Anti-polio drive needs to be universal

Efforts to eradicate polio by 2018 must ensure that people with disabilities are included in elimination strategies, says Sue Coe.

23 May 2013 | EN | FR

Malaria programme in Kenya

Invest in health systems for a balanced approach

Funding for programmes that target major diseases should be matched by investment in the health systems that underpin them, says Ghana's Irene Akua Agyepong.

3 April 2013 | EN

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Polio killings should be a wake-up call to eradication effort

The murder of health workers in Pakistan means the last leg of efforts to eradicate the disease can't be business as usual, says Heidi Larson.

25 January 2013 | EN | FR

Biomed Analysis: The social side of vaccine effectiveness

Social attitudes towards vaccines are hard to cram into a mathematical model, but scientists need to take them into account, says Priya Shetty.

18 October 2012 | EN

Biomed Analysis: India mustn't bow to patent pressure

The latest round of challenges to India's drug patent laws is a fight that must be won for the world's poor, says Priya Shetty.

19 September 2012 | EN | ES

Children at a World AIDS day event in Ethiopia, 2008

HIV/AIDS response must be informed by human rights

Integrating human rights thinking into policies for combating HIV/AIDS is essential, says Navi Pillay.

Source: Africa Renewal

17 July 2012 | EN | ES

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Neglected tropical diseases ‘heart enemies’

Neglected tropical diseases are a hidden factor of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries, say Yasmin Moolani and colleagues.

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

14 July 2012 | ES

Eliminating mosquito vectors, Mozambique

Cooperation is crucial to eliminate infectious disease

Neighbouring countries need incentives to coordinate disease control, say health policy experts Ramanan Laxminarayan and colleagues.

28 June 2012 | EN | ES

Global treaty would improve access to health

A binding international convention would facilitate a move towards more equitable access to R&D in health, according to Suerie Moon and colleagues.

Source: PLoS Medicine

23 May 2012 | EN | ES

African researchers in lab

Why it was right to publish research findings on bird flu

An editorial in the journal Nature explains the reasons for publishing the full results of a controversial paper about a modified bird flu virus

Source: Nature

10 May 2012 | EN | 中文

Biomed Analysis: Tackling drug-resistant malaria

Emerging resistance to artemisinin means efforts to track genetic markers and regulate the drug's use must step up, says Priya Shetty.

19 April 2012 | EN

Nurse holding antiretroviral pills, Zimbabwe

Use new funding models to get drugs to world's poor

Trade deals are threatening generic drugs — we need new ways to incentivise affordable drug development, says health expert Daniele Dionisio.

5 April 2012 | EN | ES

India needs a dengue surveillance system

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

Source: Current Science

23 March 2012 | EN

Biomed Analysis: Why Africa must make its own drugs

There is a pressing need for Africa to bolster its pharmaceuticals industry, and that requires the right policy framework, argues Priya Shetty.

22 March 2012 | EN

Girl with bed net, Ethiopia

Taking life-saving innovations from lab to village

Improving health for the poor depends on nurturing local innovations — and learning how to deliver them, argue Abdallah Daar and Peter Singer.

15 March 2012 | EN | FR

Africa Analysis: Finding a niche in malaria research

Africa needs to up its game in malaria research, but by doing what it does best, not by replicating Western research, says Linda Nordling.

7 March 2012 | EN | FR

Research needed to tackle neglected disease uncertainties

The revised malaria death toll suggests a need for research into uncertainties in controlling neglected tropical diseases, says Mark Booth.

Source: New Statesman

7 February 2012 | EN

Biomed Analysis: Learning from India's polio success

India's carefully targeted strategy against polio holds lessons for other countries, and for other diseases, argues Priya Shetty.

31 January 2012 | EN | FR

Child under bednet

Don't wait for wealth — better health needs basic tools

Encouraging demand for new and increasingly cheap interventions available now can boost health in developing countries, says Charles Kenny.

17 January 2012 | EN | ES

Biomed Analysis: Engage the public on new technologies

Neither dispassionate information nor scare stories are the answer: we need public engagement on health interventions, argues Priya Shetty.

16 November 2011 | EN