Monkeypox is endemic in Nigeria. But surveillance isn’t what it should be

Virologist Oyewale Tomori explains what Nigeria, where the virus is endemic, should be doing to prepare for an outbreak

Malaria elimination: South Africa needs to regroup and refocus to get there

For the second time in a decade, South Africa is set to miss its malaria-elimination target

Designing infectious disease warnings that work

Most infectious disease warning systems have been set up to fail as they focus on science, not people.

Simply Put: A generic health day in India

World Health Day 2022: Here’s looking at health, food & India

COVID-19 has suppressed influenza for now, but it will return with greater severity: Study

COVID-19 appropriate behaviour will delay competition among existing influenza lineages which will eventually expand, compete and once again …

How Nuh’s maternal mortality rate dropped 32 points in just 4 years

Incentivising institutional deliveries don’t necessarily ensure a pregnant woman’s nutritional health 

Lessons from the DRC’s 10th Ebola epidemic: the people may know best

A group of researchers studied different ways that local communities and the Riposte approached Ebola prevention, treatment and after-care.

Mosquitoes in a warming world: Aedes the menace

Latest Zika outbreaks indicate mosquito-borne diseases are fast spreading to new populations and regions & are no longer restricted to monsoon.…

Mosquitoes in a warming world: The 3 fearsome diseases

India may have started to report cases of infection by zika virus only in 2017, but dengue and chikungunya have been prevalent — cases have …

Worms thriving in brains, Assam’s tea garden workers lose lives, livelihoods

Neurocysticercosis triggered by tapeworms that easily travel between humans and pigs present a real, imminent danger of zoonosis; an …

How COVID-19 threatens to undo years of progress in TB control

For the first time since 2005, the number of deaths due to TB increased from one year to the next

The end of meat and GMOs or the end of us : Part 2

The second in a three-part series series on effects of GMOs and the meat industry on our environment

African swine fever: Forgotten contagion

Viruses, it seems, are at war with life forms. While the world is struggling with the novel coronavirus, another one has been killing pigs, …

Simply Put: COVID-19 vaccinate the hare, vaccinate the tortoise

COVID-19 second wave throws up unique problems in Arunachal Pradesh

The sparsely populated state of various tribal lineage across a challenging topography stretches administration even as …

Behind the curve: How COVID-19 exposed India’s apathetic rural health infrastructure

It should not have taken a pandemic for the government to realise the importance of the rural healthcare infrastructure and of universal free …

COVID-19 vaccines: Did a delayed second dose give the delta variant an evolutionary helping hand?

Those with a single dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine less-protected than those with 2 doses: Public Health England

Troubled interiors: How COVID-19 second wave has struck deep in heartland India

The second wave saw COVID-19 spread beyond urban centres, infecting rural and tribal populations. DTE examined 16 severely hit districts on how …

COVID-19: Why India needs a robust public health infrastructure

While we need public health professionals to work in development sector, we can also train them in epidemiology to help create a …

Simply Put: COVID-19 bills

Simply Put: India’s charge against COVID-19

We know vaccines are the way out of COVID-19, but how are India’s numbers stacked

India is adding the most to the pandemic’s tally now; yet, the vaccination drive has lost steam before any significant gains

Governance matters: COVID-19 pandemic shows how

India’s shame is not the virus but the fact that we do so little to provide healthcare even in normal times  

COVID-19 in Africa: The pain of getting the jab

The COVAX Facility and the African Union are struggling to bring some relief to Africa which has been suffering from vaccine apartheid