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World's first malaria vaccine pilot launched in Malawi

The government of Malawi has, this week, launched the world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme.

24 Apr 2019

A world free of TB is possible by 2045, new report says

Ahead of World TB Day on 24 March, The Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis has published findings that estimate the savings from averting a TB death are three times the costs and may be much greater in many countries.

21 Mar 2019

Mosquito-killing drug reduced malaria episodes by a fifth among children

First evidence that repeated mass administration of ivermectin can reduce malaria incidence in children aged five or younger without an increase in adverse events for the wider population given the drug.

14 Mar 2019

Experts warn of a surge in vector-borne diseases as humanitarian crisis in Venezuela worsens

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, dengue and Zika virus.

22 Feb 2019

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 opens for abstracts

We are now open for abstract submissions for the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 (ECTMIH).

31 Oct 2018

RSTMH and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announce Hemingway Award

RSTMH and LSTM have announced a new award, the Hemingway Award, to coincide with the celebrations of Professor Janet Hemingway’s outstanding career and achievements, as she steps down as Director of LSTM.

09 Oct 2018

RSTMH Announces Student Essay Prize

Welcome to the RSTMH Medical Student Essay Competition. This is the first time we have run this for some years and we plan to have an essay competition for global health students in due course.

02 Oct 2018

Our 2018 medals and awards winners

Every year we award a number of medals in recognition of excellence. This year, the awards took place at our Annual Meeting at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

02 Oct 2018

RSTMH and NNN announce winners of the Beat NTDs photo contest

As the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting kicks off today in Addis Ababa, we are very excited to pleased to announce the winners of our joint photo competition with NNN on the theme of neglected tropical diseased, called Beat NTDs.

24 Sep 2018

The first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day

Global coalition of health organisations announces first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day

Today – 19 September – a coalition of organisations working on global health and tropical medicine around the world, including the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, is announcing the first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day.

19 Sep 2018

World Mosquito Day and Sir Ronald Ross

World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.

17 Aug 2018

Professor David Molyneux announced as Editor-in-Chief of International Health

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced Professor David Molyneux, Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow and neglected tropical diseases lead at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, as the Editor-in-Chief of our journal, International Health.

14 Aug 2018

Blogs

Although dogs in rural Africa are often free-roaming, most are owned and accessible for vaccination. Photo: Felix Lankester

Eliminating human rabies deaths

Rabies is devastating human disease that still kills tens of thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths occur in poor, rural communities of Asia and Africa and result from the inequalities that typify neglected diseases of poverty.

13 Jan 2021