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RSTMH response to Ebola crisis in DRC

We are in the midst of the second largest Ebola outbreak in history – second only to the 2014 West African epidemic.

26 May 2019

Wellcome launches £80 million programme to tackle snakebite

Today, Wellcome has announced an ambitious new £80 million programme to transform the way snakebite treatments are researched and delivered, to make them better, safer and more accessible for all.

16 May 2019

Record number of small grants received in 2019

This year we have seen a record number of applications for our small grants programme.

26 Apr 2019

World's first malaria vaccine pilot launched in Malawi

The government of Malawi has, this week, launched the world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme.

24 Apr 2019

A world free of TB is possible by 2045, new report says

Ahead of World TB Day on 24 March, The Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis has published findings that estimate the savings from averting a TB death are three times the costs and may be much greater in many countries.

21 Mar 2019

Mosquito-killing drug reduced malaria episodes by a fifth among children

First evidence that repeated mass administration of ivermectin can reduce malaria incidence in children aged five or younger without an increase in adverse events for the wider population given the drug.

14 Mar 2019

Experts warn of a surge in vector-borne diseases as humanitarian crisis in Venezuela worsens

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, dengue and Zika virus.

22 Feb 2019

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 opens for abstracts

We are now open for abstract submissions for the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 (ECTMIH).

31 Oct 2018

RSTMH and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announce Hemingway Award

RSTMH and LSTM have announced a new award, the Hemingway Award, to coincide with the celebrations of Professor Janet Hemingway’s outstanding career and achievements, as she steps down as Director of LSTM.

09 Oct 2018

RSTMH Announces Student Essay Prize

Welcome to the RSTMH Medical Student Essay Competition. This is the first time we have run this for some years and we plan to have an essay competition for global health students in due course.

02 Oct 2018

Our 2018 medals and awards winners

Every year we award a number of medals in recognition of excellence. This year, the awards took place at our Annual Meeting at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

02 Oct 2018

RSTMH and NNN announce winners of the Beat NTDs photo contest

As the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting kicks off today in Addis Ababa, we are very excited to pleased to announce the winners of our joint photo competition with NNN on the theme of neglected tropical diseased, called Beat NTDs.

24 Sep 2018

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Credit: Professor Gail Davey. Caption: Rwandan podoconiosis patients learning self-care for their legs

Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

For World NTD Day, Professor Gail Davey, Trustee and Past President of RSTMH and a medical epidemiologist specialising in skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, looks at why it is crucial that we act now and together to end NTDs and says that NTD programmes can no longer be considered in isolation from endemic country health systems.

30 Jan 2023

Credit: Bate Eyong Caption: Blood samples collected as part of community survey to determine the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis in the northwest region of Cameroon.

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

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.

30 Jan 2023

Finding trachoma Credit: Kramoko Bamba / Sightsavers Caption "In Amédékro, Ivory Coast, Children wait in an orderly queue for Dr Sarr Boubacar to screen them for trachoma. He checks the eyes of all of the children for evidence of this potentially blinding neglected tropical disease, which typically affects people in remote or poor areas. During this activity, almost 2000 children were screened and those with trachoma were given medication to treat the infection. Importantly, he also trained others in the

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

World NTD Day is taking place today on 30 January. To mark this year, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on NTDs in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in NTDs’ means to them.

30 Jan 2023

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RSTMH response to Ebola crisis in DRC

Wellcome launches £80 million programme to tackle snakebite

Record number of small grants received in 2019

World's first malaria vaccine pilot launched in Malawi

A world free of TB is possible by 2045, new report says

Mosquito-killing drug reduced malaria episodes by a fifth among children

Experts warn of a surge in vector-borne diseases as humanitarian crisis in Venezuela worsens

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 opens for abstracts

RSTMH and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announce Hemingway Award

RSTMH Announces Student Essay Prize

Our 2018 medals and awards winners

RSTMH and NNN announce winners of the Beat NTDs photo contest

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Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

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