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2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme opens for applications

The 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme is now open for applications. Last year the Programme provided 299 grants to those early in their careers to carry out their first piece of research into tropical medicine or global health.

20 Feb 2025

Snakebite Special Issue published on World NTD Day

Today, on World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, RSTMH has published a Special Issue on ‘Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap’ in its journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.

30 Jan 2025

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2024 Student Essay Prize Winner announced

We are excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Student Essay Prize, now in its sixth year.

23 Jan 2025

ICTMM 2028 date and venue announced

We are excited to announce the date and venue for the 22nd International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, which the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene will be hosting in Liverpool, UK in 2028.

28 Nov 2024

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Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 6, June 2025

In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (TRSTMH), highlights include a Review article on the burden of mycetoma in Burkina Faso; an evaluation of suitability of two types of diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Argentina; a retrospective case series from South India analysing the tunnel sign in patients with melioidosis; an Original Article assessing the diagnostic sensitivity of microscopic techniques using formalin-fixed samples for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths; and six further papers from our recent Special Issue: Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap.

10 Jun 2025

Round-up: 2025 Early Career Grants Programme applications

In this blog, RSTMH Grants Manager Greta Holmes looks at the applications to this year's Early Career Grants programme – another record-breaking year for applications. 

30 May 2025

Malaria, helminths, and other health challenges among street children and youths in Cameroon

Valerie Makoge, Early Career Grant 2021 awardee and RSTMH Global Assessor, recently published an article in International Health titled ‘Unveiling the hidden health challenges: malaria, helminths, STIs and other pathologies among street children, adolescents and young adults in Cameroon’. In this blog, she summarises the key findings.

30 May 2025

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 5, May 2025

In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Editor’s Choice article is a paper by J M R P Bandara and colleagues, which demonstrates systematically the lack of evidence for plasma exchange in this severe and often fatal complication of leptospirosis.

15 May 2025

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