The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Dr Kevin Tetteh has been appointed one of three new Innovation Fellows to undertake studies aimed at producing novel diagnostic tools for infectious diseases. 

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, dengue, and Zika virus, and threatens to jeopardise public health gains in the country over the past two decades, warns a new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Providing clean injecting equipment through needle and syringe programmes is a highly cost-effective way of preventing hepatitis C (HCV) transmission among people who inject drugs and could save millions of pounds in infection treatment costs in the UK, according to new research published in Addiction.