Infectious Diseases

Afghan burqa-clad women health workers administer polio vaccine drops to a child during a campaign in Jalalabad on August 21, 2023.

Polio Eradication Through Innovation

Maggie Medison, 18, joined PEPFAR’s DREAMS program in Malawi and now is a peer educator, working with girls in her community to raise awareness about the importance of staying in school and protection against HIV. Nov. 14, 2017.

Learning Our Lessons: What’s Missing from Pandemic Preparedness

Engaging students in Grenada. Nikita Cudjoe

From Parachute Science to Community Engagement and Advocacy

A woman gives a polio vaccine to baby.

Women Health Workers Hold the Key to Eradicating Polio

A child looks uncertain as he receives a polio vaccine at a health care center in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on April 3, 2023. Aditya Aji/AFP via Getty

Playing Catch-Up: Immunization Is Not a Game We Can Afford to Lose

The dome of the US Capitol visible through pink and white cherry blossom branches against a blue sky in Washington, DC, on March 27, 2023.

CUGH 2023: In-Person and In DC

An ambulance drives through Laatzen, Germany in heavy snow during a surge in COVID-19 cases on January 31, 2022.

A Smarter, Better Fight in the Next Pandemic

A leprosy patient sits outside the abandoned Curupaiti Colony Hospital in Rio de Janeiro on November 21, 2021.

Neglected Diseases

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Integrate to Eliminate

Peter Jay Hotez, M.D., Ph.D.

Peter Hotez on Patent-Free Vaccines—and Texas, Tito’s, and Twitter

Children walk home from school in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 30, 2022. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

Africa’s Different Dengue Symptoms Require New WHO Diagnostic Criteria

Doctor Yulismar (R) checks the condition of a tuberculosis patient at the Indonesian Association Against Tuberculosis in Jakarta, March 24, 2016. Jefri Tarigan /Anadolu Agency/Getty

Infectious Diseases

Ending TB Will Cost Billions—Not Ending it Will Cost Trillions

Mechai Viravaidya, aka "Mr. Condom," signs a copy of his biography, From Condoms to Cabbages, for a visitor from the International Conference on Family Planning at the Cabbages and Condoms restaurant in Pattaya, Thailand.

Family Planning

C Is for Condom, P Is for Pill