- by Alison
Getting the right test, at the right time, to the right population is key to effective dengue control Five years ago, Honduran Yensi Flores experienced the worst dengue epidemic she had ever known. Her determination to help her countrymen led to GlowDx – a new…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Commitment of veteran malaria campaigners to tackle dengue is a sign of how serious global public health advocates take the disease Leading global health organization Malaria Consortium is hosting a roundtable in London this week and launching a new report in an effort to put dengue fever…
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- by Alison
Getting the right test, at the right time, to the right population is key to effective dengue control When a parent presents their child at a clinic with a high fever, clinicians often find it hard to determine the cause based on the symptoms alone.…
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- by Mauro Abati
The Paraná dengue battle is not new, but high rates of dengue fever in the region have prompted the government to take serious, and innovative actions to tackle the disease. Paraná is a big and important state located in southern Brazil. Its economy is the…
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- by Gary Finnegan
The Paraná dengue vaccine program, introduced earlier this year, will pay off by reducing spending on hospital care as well as keeping people in work and protecting the tourist industry. That’s the view of Health Secretary Michele Caputo, the official responsible for running the ground-breaking…
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- by Alison
€10,000 in funding for projects and ideas that integrate vaccine into anti-dengue strategy Community health projects can help societies to embrace new tools in a way that ensures buy-in from local people. That is why we have launched the €10,000 Break Dengue Community Action Prize…
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- by Gary Finnegan
As well as causing thousands of serious birth defects, Zika outbreaks threaten to distract us from other public health crises The Zika virus is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito – a bug that is also responsible for spreading dengue fever, yellow fever, and chikungunya.…
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- by Gary Finnegan
Integrating vector control and vaccination key to beating viruses spread by Aedes mosquitoes Public health organizations are uniting in a stance against the world’s deadliest creature. Four leading institutions working on dengue prevention and control have joined forces to take on one of the world’s…
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- by KRIZETTE CHU
Philippines politicians threaten to cut health budget, vaccine program at risk Lawmakers in the Philippines are holding a Congressional hearing on the 2017 annual budget—the first budget planned under the new government led by President Rodrigo Duterte. Some politicians have trained their sights on the…
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- by Alison
Controlling mosquito populations is becoming an ongoing battle in much of the world. Like any other living thing, mosquitoes need the energy to survive. They need it to fly, to reproduce … to live. Many people think that all mosquitoes bite humans and that our…
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