Tropical Infectious Diseases: Still Here, Still Raging, Still Killing

Neglected tropical disease vaccines: hookworm, leishmaniasis, and schistosomiasis

“…Efforts like Operation Warp Speed have further demonstrated how policy levers can incentivize companies to develop and bring to market new vaccines. Meanwhile, NTDs have remained widely prevalent and in fact may have even accelerated because of the diversion of funds and resources to COVID-19 prevention efforts [21] . But there has also been a new understanding of the devastation caused by vaccine access inequalities that delayed the availability of mRNA and other vaccines to LMICs [22] .…”

Promise of new malaria vaccines

“…Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, global health scientists and professionals worried not only about this new and emerging viral infection but also about a potential diversion of attention and resources from other pressing tropical and infectious disease threats 1. The greatest of those concerns was malaria, which remains one of the biggest killers of children, especially on the African continent.…”