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World AIDS Day: Article Collection

To mark World AIDS Day 2022, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on HIV and AIDS related research, from our journals Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and International Health.

01 Dec 2022

World AIDS Day: Early Career Grant research into HIV and AIDS

For World AIDS Day, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on AIDS and HIV in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Equalize’ means to them.

01 Dec 2022

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria Credit: CDC

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022: Article collection

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is taking place this year from 18 to the 24 November 2022. To mark WAAW, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on antimicrobial resistance.

18 Nov 2022

Annual Meeting 2022: Topical issues in malaria and in resistance

A few weeks ago we delivered our Annual Meeting in Liverpool, which this year focused on topical issues in malaria and in resistance. RSTMH Chief Executive Tamar Ghosh highlights some of the key discussions and themes, as well as the other activities which took place.

08 Nov 2022

Transactions: Volume 116, Issue 11, November 2022

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founded in 1908. Take a look at the articles featured in Volume 116, Issue 11.

02 Nov 2022

International Health: Volume 14, Issue 6, November 2022

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.

01 Nov 2022

Transactions: Volume 116, Issue 10, October 2022

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was founded in 1908. Take a look at the articles featured in Volume 116, Issue 10, published in October 2022.

26 Oct 2022

Topics in Infection 2022

Last month we held our 47th Annual Topics in Infection meeting – a one day event delivered as a partnership between RSTMH, Barts Health and the UK Health Security Agency.

21 Oct 2022

Malaria article collection

Ahead of the 20th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) taking place in Bangkok, Thailand next week, we have pulled together a collection of recent articles on malaria from our two journals International Health and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

21 Oct 2022

2022 Presidents Fund awardess

Find out more about this year’s President’s Fund awardees and their work.

12 Oct 2022

Shared Landscapes/Divided Lands

Gnaneswar Chandrasekharun was the winner of the RSTMH and Venoms and Toxins 2022 Snakebite photo competition for his photo titled ‘shared landscapes’. Working as a Coordinator for the Snake Conservation and Snakebite Mitigation Project Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank’s (CFH/MCBT) Snake Conservation and Snakebite Mitigation Project, he explains some of their key initiatives working on snakebite in India.

07 Oct 2022

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

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