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2021 President’s Fund awardees announced

At this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), our now Past President, Professor Gail Davey, announced the four awardees of the 2021 President’s Fund.

07 Oct 2021

RSTMH announces winner of "Global Challenges in Health" photo competition

Today, at the closing ceremony of ECTMIH 2021, RSTMH announced the winner of its photo competition in partnership with the Congress, entitled “Global Challenges in Health: Your stories from around the world”.

30 Sep 2021

Meningitis epidemics often strike in overcrowded conditions, such as refugee camps.

WHO launches roadmap to defeat meningitis by 2030

Today, in Geneva, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization and partners launched “Defeating Meningitis by 2030: A Global Roadmap”.

28 Sep 2021

RSTMH launches new online Members Area

The Members Area is an online space where RSTMH members can go for bespoke content and resources related to the field of tropical medicine and global health.

14 Sep 2021

RSTMH announces three-year partnership with Wellcome Trust

Wellcome is the first partner to have agreed to support our Small Grants Programme over a period of several years.

06 Jul 2021

Impact factor announcement for RSTMH journals

RSTMH is delighted to announce increases in the impact factors for both our journals.

30 Jun 2021

WHO declares China malaria-free

Today, following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO.

30 Jun 2021

Vaccine storage warehouse, Kinkole commune, Kinshasa, DRC. Photo credit: UNICEF / Ray

COVID-19 surge across African continent, RSTMH statement

RSTMH is hugely concerned about the current devastating wave of COVID-19 that is sweeping across the African continent.

25 Jun 2021

International Health – call for papers

The International Health editorial team would like to highlight some areas of particular interest

23 Jun 2021

"Global Challenges in Health" – RSTMH and ECTMIH 2021 photo contest launches

Submit your images to the "Global Challenges in Health: Your stories from around the world" – a photo contest from RSTMH and ECTMIH 2021.

07 Jun 2021

Photo credit: Helen Keller International

RSTMH responds to cuts to UK Official Development Aid

RSTMH is deeply concerned to learn of the UK government’s decision to significantly cut Official Development Assistance.

29 Apr 2021

World Health Day: building a fairer, healthier world

To mark World Health Day 2021, RSTMH is reaffirming its commitment to global vaccine equity.

06 Apr 2021

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World AIDs Day 2023: Early Career Grant research into HIV and AIDS

For World AIDs Day 2023, 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 ‘Let Communities Lead’ means to them.

01 Dec 2023

HIV screening in rural communities. Credit: Joshua Kwabena Aniaku

Sarah Rowland-Jones: ‘There are reasons to be optimistic this World AIDs Day’

In this blog, Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones explains that although there are certainly some reasons to be optimistic this World AIDS day, there are also some causes for concern buried amongst the UNAIDS data.

01 Dec 2023

World AIDs Day 2023: Article collection

For World AIDs Day we have collated a number of recent articles from our two journals International Health and Transactions on the subject of HIV and AIDs.

01 Dec 2023

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2021 President’s Fund awardees announced

RSTMH announces winner of "Global Challenges in Health" photo competition

WHO launches roadmap to defeat meningitis by 2030

RSTMH launches new online Members Area

RSTMH announces three-year partnership with Wellcome Trust

Impact factor announcement for RSTMH journals

WHO declares China malaria-free

COVID-19 surge across African continent, RSTMH statement

International Health – call for papers

"Global Challenges in Health" – RSTMH and ECTMIH 2021 photo contest launches

RSTMH responds to cuts to UK Official Development Aid

World Health Day: building a fairer, healthier world

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