Blogs

Professor David Mabey, Past President and Trustee of RSTMH and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Department of NTDs, looks at what progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and says that now is the time for us all to act, act together and invest in NTDs.

The funding for our 2022 Early Career Grants Programme is almost finalized and as in past years we want to share with you key information about our winners.

Dr Anders Solitander Bohlbro and colleagues recently published an article in Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which looks at how ‘BCG is protective against death in male but not female patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Guinea-Bissau’. To coincide with its publication, Dr Anders Solitander Bohlbro has written this blog which takes a look at the study and its results.

International Health is an open-access journal publishing original, peer-reviewed articles and reviews on all aspects of global health. Take a look at the article features in the most recent issue, Volume 15, Issue 1.

This issue includes a review article on sickle cell disease treatment and management in India, as well as a commentary article on whether helminth and malaria infections affect sex ratio at birth in sub-Saharan Africa. It also includes original articles including one on the prevalence of anaemia and its associated factors among lactating mothers in eastern Sudan, and on exporing the treatment outcomes and risk factors of death in childhood tuberculous meningitis in Kandahar, Afghanistan.