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WHO published updated community health programmes guidelines

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its interim guidance for the implementation of community-based health care programmes, including neglected tropical disease programmes in a new report on 7 May 2020.

07 May 2020

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Mark Nanyingi, our Country Ambassador for Kenya.

04 May 2020

COVID-19 in Botswana: A brief report by a front line official

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Ivan Nkaiwa, our Country Ambassador for Botswana.

04 May 2020

Australia in the time of COVID-19

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Professor John Aaskov, our Country Ambassador for Australia.

04 May 2020

Record number of small grants received in 2020

This year we have once again seen a record number of applicants for our small grants programme, receiving 932 applications in total.

04 May 2020

One more week to get applications in for an RSTMH small grant

We have a week to go for RSTMH small grant submissions and we would love to see more applications from those early in their careers, from around the world.

20 Apr 2020

COVID-19: WHO issues interim guidance for implementation of NTD programmes

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued interim guidance for NTD programmes in accordance with the public health measures put in place to curb the Covid-19 pandemic.

02 Apr 2020

COVID-19 – advice from RSTMH members and Fellows

Response from our members and Fellows what they felt RSTMH should be doing to help the global efforts to tackle COVID-19.

23 Mar 2020

Soulsby Foundation calls for applications for 2020 One Health Fellowships

Soulsby Foundation has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Travelling Fellowships Programme

26 Nov 2019

Dr Caroline Harper, Sightsavers CEO, announced as first winner of Hemingway Award

Dr Caroline Harper, the Chief Executive of UK-based NGO Sightsavers, has been selected by RSTMH and LSTM as the winner of the first Hemingway Award.

25 Nov 2019

DFID launches flagship programme to tackle neglected tropical diseases

The ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases) programme is a £200m investment to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs.

25 Oct 2019

ECTMIH 2019: Next steps

RSTMH delivered the five-day event under the theme “25 years: investigation, innovation and implementation”.

14 Oct 2019

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Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 7, July 2025

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is from our ongoing ‘From the Archives’ series, where experts give a commentary and update on a paper from the Transactions archives. In this paper, Liu and Richardson revisit Brian Greenwood’s 2009 commentary “Can malaria be eliminated?”, summarising developments and achievements in, and threats to, global malaria elimination efforts over the last decade and a half. Although they conclude that the answer is still ‘yes’ to the question posed by Greenwood, with most of the necessary tools already available, they highlight the many challenges ahead, not least the dramatic cuts in global health funding we have seem over the past months. Malaria is far from being a ‘solved’ problem.”

09 Jul 2025

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 6, June 2025

In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (TRSTMH), highlights include a Review article on the burden of mycetoma in Burkina Faso; an evaluation of suitability of two types of diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Argentina; a retrospective case series from South India analysing the tunnel sign in patients with melioidosis; an Original Article assessing the diagnostic sensitivity of microscopic techniques using formalin-fixed samples for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths; and six further papers from our recent Special Issue: Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap.

10 Jun 2025

Malaria, helminths, and other health challenges among street children and youths in Cameroon

Valerie Makoge, Early Career Grant 2021 awardee and RSTMH Global Assessor, recently published an article in International Health titled ‘Unveiling the hidden health challenges: malaria, helminths, STIs and other pathologies among street children, adolescents and young adults in Cameroon’. In this blog, she summarises the key findings.

30 May 2025

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WHO published updated community health programmes guidelines

The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya

COVID-19 in Botswana: A brief report by a front line official

Australia in the time of COVID-19

Record number of small grants received in 2020

One more week to get applications in for an RSTMH small grant

COVID-19: WHO issues interim guidance for implementation of NTD programmes

COVID-19 – advice from RSTMH members and Fellows

Soulsby Foundation calls for applications for 2020 One Health Fellowships

Dr Caroline Harper, Sightsavers CEO, announced as first winner of Hemingway Award

DFID launches flagship programme to tackle neglected tropical diseases

ECTMIH 2019: Next steps

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