Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

New UKHSA report highlights lower testing uptake, PrEP access, and later diagnoses in Black African communities.

The WHO Director-General has convened an Emergency Committee regarding the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a public health emergency of international concern.

Pandemic risk is outpacing investments, an expert global monitoring group has warned in a new report launched on 18th May in the margins of the 79th World Health Assembly.

France’s HIV prevention efforts are hindered by low PrEP uptake, especially among women, migrants and younger people despite full health system reimbursement.

CMV screening and antenatal valacyclovir use increased in France after a pivotal 2020 trial, without a rise in pregnancy termination rates.

Plasmodium vivax malaria found in Duffy-negative individuals in Sudan, challenging assumptions about resistance and revealing parasite adaptation. Read more.

A single-dose viral vector-based rabies vaccine shows strong, sustained antibody responses in adults and children with a good safety profile at 1 year.

Australian cohort study has found that HIV incidence among transgender people fell by almost 94% between 2014 and 2023.