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Submit your photos to the Beat NTDs photo contest

Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) are a group of treatable and preventable diseases that continue to affect over 1.5 billion of the world's most impoverished, marginalised people living in remote communities. Despite their prevalence, they get little attention or coverage.

31 May 2018

Global healthcare access and quality improved from 2000-2016

Healthcare access and quality improved globally from 2000-2016 due in part to large gains seen in many low and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according to the latest data from the Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet.

23 May 2018

Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Treating young children in Sub-Saharan Africa with azithromycin, a safe, inexpensive, and widely used antibiotic, significantly reduced deaths of children under five in a large randomised trial led by scientists at UC San Francisco.

26 Apr 2018

Submit your photos to Photovoice at HSR2018

The Global Symposium on Health Systems Research invites you to submit Photovoice applications. RSTMH is proud to be sponsoring the Photovoice exhibit. Successful Photovoice submissions will be displayed in a photographic exhibition and discussion forum during the HSR2018 symposium in Liverpool, UK which will take place from 8 -12 October, 2018.

18 Apr 2018

New bed net coated with an insecticide and a long-lasting chemical helps reduce malaria prevalence

Bed nets have been highly effective in protecting against malaria, but recent increase in insecticide resistance means new approaches are needed.

12 Apr 2018

RSTMH announces Dr Adrian Hopkins MBE as Chair of Scientific Committee of 2019 European Congress

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) is pleased to announce Dr Adrian Hopkins MBE as the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the 11th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH).

11 Apr 2018

In memoriam: Professor Tsutomu Takeuchi

It is with great sadness that I share the news of the death on 20 March 2018 of Professor Tsutomu Takeuchi – physician, parasitologist and Professor Emeritus at Keio University.

10 Apr 2018

Mosquito-killing drug shows effect for a month, offering possible new tool for malaria elimination

Adding ‘repurposed’ antiparasitic drug to community-wide campaigns with antimalarial treatment could boost impact by up to 61%. A drug commonly used to treat parasitic diseases reveals further potential as a new tool for malaria control.

28 Mar 2018

Professor Sir Brian Greenwood announced as Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s journal, Transactions

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced Professor Sir Brian Greenwood, Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, as the Editor-in-Chief of our journal, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

06 Mar 2018

WHO strategy to eradicate yaws should be revised to achieve elimination, study suggests

First evidence of antibiotic resistance in yaws bacteria highlights need for robust vigilance and improved laboratory surveillance.

08 Feb 2018

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Rapid spread of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia demands urgent action

Genetic surveillance should be incorporated into malaria control programmes to improve treatment and reduce risk of drug-resistant major outbreaks. The current spread of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia is likely to be the result of two mutations combining in 2008, according to a retrospective genetic study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.

02 Feb 2018

RSTMH announces call for applications for the Robert Cochrane Fund for Leprosy

To mark World Leprosy Day, we are opening a call for applications for the remaining £1,000 of the Robert Cochrane Fund for Leprosy. The funding is to be awarded to further research in the field of leprosy and in honour of Robert Cochrane, the eminent leprologist.

30 Jan 2018

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Photo title: Kraits at Night Photo credit: Oliver G. Becker / Occasione Documentaries Photo caption: Bites by kraits are a leading cause of snakebite mortality in Southeast Asia. They typically occur at night, on sleeping people and cause neuromuscular paralysis. Kraits produce very small amounts of venom and have only short fangs to inject it. Thus, conventional ways of venom extraction are ineffective. In this photo, Prof. Md. Farid Ahsan (University of Chittagong) and Dr. Ulrich Kuch (Goethe Universit

ISBAD 2022: Challenges and Barriers in Accessing Effective Snakebite Treatment

The theme of this year’s International Snakebite Awareness Day, which took place on Monday 19 September, was on ‘Challenges and Barriers in Accessing Effective Snakebite Treatment’. We spoke to some of our Early Career Grant (previously know as Small Grant) awardees and asked for their contribution to the theme, as well as to tell us why they chose to do research into snakebite.

22 Sep 2022

Behind the photos: Venoms and Toxins 2022 Snakebite photo competition

Earlier this year we ran a photo competition to showcase the people, communities, activities, successes and challenges of snakebite and snakebite research, in partnership with Venoms and Toxins 2022, the 9th international toxinology conference at Oxford (UK). The ten shortlisted entries, including the winning photo and those appearing in second and third place, explained how their photos came about.

21 Sep 2022

Venoms and Toxins 2022: Snakebite photo competition

In partnership with Venoms and Toxins 2022, the 9th international toxinology conference at Oxford (UK), we ran a photo competition to showcase the people, communities, activities, successes and challenges of snakebite and snakebite research.

20 Sep 2022

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