Researchers are stepping up efforts to finding new treatments for Chagas disease, with three drug candidates in clinical trials.

The pursuit of an AIDS vaccine has boosted African research and capacity to conduct trials, and encouraged other countries to follow suit.

Thirty years since the eradication of smallpox, we are yet to beat polio and malaria, and scientists are discussing new courses of action.

A new study has evaluated the 12 potential vaccines against dengue fever, discussing the challenges facing their development.

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.

It is a hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease — and in some ways it has been a lost century, say campaigners.

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