Infectious Diseases

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

Thai performers at the ICFP Opening Ceremony.

Family Planning

Dispatches from ICFP 2022 in Pattaya City, Thailand

Mayor Geoffrey Makhubo launched a handwashing campaign to counter the spread of COVID-19 at the Mangolongolo Informal Settlement, April 22, 2020, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Public Trust Can Make or Break Government Response to Public Health Crisis

sther Sambiri, left, stands with fellow vaccine advocates outside the Nyanga, Zimbabwe, district government office on Dec. 16, 2021. Image: Farai Mutsaka

Translated Articles

津巴布韦：新冠疫苗信任危机引发HPV疫苗接种恐惧

Health workers walk from house to house during a polio vaccination campaign in Hotoro-Kudu, Nassarawa district of Kano, Nigeria. April 22, 2017. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

The Last Mile: How We’ll Stop All Poliovirus in Africa

Anopheles dirus; main vector in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Infectious Diseases

Fighting the ‘Million-Murdering’ Mosquito: Lessons from the Pandemic

Portugal’s first monkeypox patients were diagnosed at Hospital Santo Antonio Dos Capuchos in Lisbon in early May.

Infectious Diseases

Parties, Symptoms, Mysteries: An Early Monkeypox Patient in Portugal

Karupayee with M. Raja and A. Vincent of the Mahelerecen Leprosy center in Madurai, India. March, 2022. Kamala Thiagarajan

Neglected Diseases

How COVID-19 Set Back India’s Battle with Leprosy