Last year we published an Editorial arguing that the time had come to integrate prevention and treatment of HIV into maternal and…

Prevention is the buzzword at the Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention(IAS 2011). Whether its the just-published…

The World Bank and the World Health Organization have just released the first ever report on the extent of disability worldwide which…

Today we’re delighted to publish a Collection of 12 reviews, comprising three reflective pieces and nine research and development agendas, as part…

I’m currently at the 41st Union World Conference in Berlin, Germany and this morning enjoyed an interactive session debating whether walk-in testing…

The first Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy methods and applications will be held in Bali, Indonesia, in February 2011. This neglected area…

Almost a year ago I wrote a short post highlighting the work of the FERG (Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group) at…

Policy Cures, led by Director Mary Moran, has relaunched as an independent organization. I went to the relaunch at the London School…

I read yesterday about an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) — also known as kala-azar — in Southern Sudan on the Doctors…

Last month Ginny and I had an interesting day out of the office at a conference run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). It…

More than 100 years on from the discovery, by British surgeon Ronald Ross, that mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites to humans, DFID (Department…

Back in November of last year I attended a meeting convened by the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) which aims…