In research involving hundreds of houses in the town of Farafenni in The Gambia insect screens covering windows and openings were found to cut the numbers of mosquitoes indoors by 59 per cent. In addition the rates of childhood anaemia …

The global health initiatives set up in the last decade to fight killer diseases like AIDS, TB and Malaria are not investing enough in efforts made locally in countries around the world to deliver health through effective health systems. That’s …

The poorest members of the global community – not necessarily geographically defined – are those who need to be targeted in healthcare development rather than countries labelled as “developing”. Peter Goodwin hears the views of Hans Rosling of the Karonlinska …

The preparations being made for a possible pandemic of the new H1N1 influenza were explained recently in London by the Secretary General’s Representative, Dr David Nabarro, during the inaugural lecture for the journal: Health Policy and Planning held at …

Peter Goodwin talks with Sarah Staedke of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who’s based in Kampala, Uganda, about her new research findings that giving parents and carers supplies of anti-malaria medicines at home to treat feverish children …

– Peter Goodwin asks Sandra Mounier-Jack, expert in Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, if the preparations taking place all over the world in the face of the threat from “swine ‘flu” are …